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Movie Info

A young woman risks everything for freedom after she is sold to a brothel.

Rating:

PG-13 (Disturbing Thematic Material|Trafficking of Children)
Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Jeffrey D. Brown
Producer:

Jane Charles, Joseph Kwong
Writer:

Jeffrey D. Brown, Joseph Kwong
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 3, 2017
Runtime:

1h 37m
Production Co:

Jaya International

Cast & Crew

Niyar Saikia
Lakshmi

Sushmita Mukherjee
Mumtaz

Tillotama Shome
Auntie Bimla

Gillian Anderson
Sophia

David Arquette
Sam

Parambrata Chatterjee
Vikram

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Critic Reviews for Sold

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (7)

"Sold" is maudlin in a way that makes its audience, paradoxically, feel good, albeit superficially. A story of human trafficking should move us on a deeper, more uncomfortable level.

April 21, 2016 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Alan Zilberman
Washington Post
All of this is uncomfortable to watch. Then again, given the subject matter, it should be.

April 14, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Randy Myers
San Jose Mercury News
[Brown] does his best to suggest the lighter side of the subject, especially in a furiously choreographed Bollywood number that captures the heroine's rare moments of joy.

April 14, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

John Hartl
Seattle Times
"Sold" is colorful and visually pleasing, although there is nothing surprising in the rather predictable story. But then again, it was likely not Brown's intent to supply endless twists and turns.

April 14, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
Important story, subpar execution.

April 8, 2016 | Full Review…

Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
The film gives us a vibrant, tangible sense of place, the color and dust of a crowded ancient city, and the layers of secrecy and corruption under which Lakshmi and those like her are trapped.

April 1, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Joyce Kulhawik
RogerEbert.com
Sold isn't cheap or shoddy and the relationships between the captives is affecting, but it's impossible to shake the feeling that it would make more sense in a lecture hall than in a theater.

August 18, 2017 | Full Review…

Kathy Fennessy
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
The film has a worthy message, but doesn't present its brave young heroine's story compellingly.

April 15, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Anita Katz
San Francisco Examiner
Brown makes it clear that what happened to Lakshmi is not her fault - and more importantly, she's never passive, taking her fate into her own hands.

April 14, 2016 | Full Review…

Sherilyn Connelly
SF Weekly
Mostly dreary.

April 13, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
Horror of Human Trafficking.

April 4, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Jean Lowerison
ReviewExpress.com
This earnest low-budget drama reinforces a worthwhile message about global sex trafficking, but it's more admirable for its effort than its execution.

April 1, 2016 | Full Review…

Todd Jorgenson
Cinemalogue

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