Bordertown (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 3 Fresh: 2 Rotten:1 Average Rating: N/A
Rated: R
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Theatrical Release: Oct 19, 2007 Limited
Synopsis:
Since 1993, almost 400 women have been murdered in Juarez, Mexico, a factory town that is home to people who toil away at “maquiladoras” (border factories) making cheap consumer goods for the US market. BORDERTOWN tells the story of Lauren Fredricks (Jennifer Lopez), an ambitious newspaper... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Martin Sheen, Sonia Braga, Maya Zapata
Director: Gregory Nava
Screenwriter: Gregory Nava
Producer: Gregory Nava, Simon Fields, David Bergstein
Composer: Graeme Revell
Screenwriter: Gregory Nava
Producer: Gregory Nava, Simon Fields, David Bergstein
Composer: Graeme Revell
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Jennifer Lopez plays it tough and down and dirty, on the Mexican border.
10/25/07 07:00 AM
The film takes JLo's character into harrowing, difficult places, exploring the complexities of racial identity, shame, self-hatred and ultimate healing.
01/05/08 03:21 PM
Top Critic
The biggest weakness of Bordertown is its heavy-handed over-simplification of complex political and economic issues. That and Jennifer Lopez's massive ego.
09/05/07 10:52 PM
The film takes Lopez's character into harrowing, difficult places, exploring the complexities of racial understanding, identity, shame, self-hatred and ultimate healing.
10/26/07 07:09 PM
Lopez's character eventually comes to care deeply for these factory women, through a process that includes confronting discomfort and denial about her own racial roots, and joining the female workers on the grueling assembly line to feel their pain.
10/06/07 03:03 PM
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