The Gatekeeper R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 6, 2010
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Screen Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Carlos Frey, Joel Brooks, Michelle Agnew & Anne Betancourt | |
Directed by | John Carlos Frey | |
Screenwriting by | John Carlos Frey |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
A very personal and heartfelt film, if one that shows the strains of its low budget and strident desire to tell an Important Story.
Las Vegas Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
While his instincts as a director could use some sharpening, Frey's performance and script, brought to life by a solid supporting cast, are both uncommonly smart.
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TV Guide
Rating: 2/5 --
The film would be destined for limited interest even if it had a good script, which it didn't.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 2/4 --
Suffers from a condition that afflicts most 'message' movies -- heavy-handed preachiness.
Los Angeles Daily News
This earnest, shoestring indie that makes use of some sharp location shooting and sympathetic performances to rise above its often awkward staging and writing.
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L.A. Weekly
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Despite its flaws, The Gatekeeper will keep you engaged.
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Miami Herald
The movie never rises above mediocrity and at times, devolves into amateurish histrionics.
Newark Star-Ledger
Product Description:
For border guard Adam Fields (John Carlos Frey), preventing Mexican immigrants from crossing over from Tijuana to the San Diego is a personal mission. He sees the potential illegal aliens as a scourge that could potential strip America of both its resources and its identity. His girlfriend's father involves him in a group that is determined to stop the flow of illegal aliens at any cost--but he hasn't told them his shameful secret...that he's half-Mexican. Adam's self-loathing sees him allowing the secret organization to put him in the position of going undercover with a group of real immigrants trying to cross the border in order to learn the secrets of their methods. Before the ordeal is through he'll be forced to come face to face with the unresolved issues he has regarding his background.