Fresh
As cinema, 'Trade' is flawed: the script is functional and the dry characters are hemmed in by the machinations of an unremarkable plot.
Tom Huddlestone, Time Out
Trade
Each year, more than 1,000,000 people are trafficked across international borders... against their will.
2007 · 2h · R
Thriller
Directed by
Marco Kreuzpaintner
Overview
A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Polish woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.
Director and cast
- Marco Kreuzpaintner Director
- Kevin Kline as Ray Sheridan
- Cesar Ramos as Jorge
- Paulina Gaitán as Adriana
- Alicja Bachleda-Curuś as Veronica
- Marco Pérez as Manuelo
- Linda Emond as Patty Sheridan
- Zack Ward as Alex Green
- Kate del Castillo as Laura
- Pasha D. Lychnikoff as Vadim Youchenko
- Natalia Traven as Lupe
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
34%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A documentary about sex trafficking might have been more powerful. Dramatizing the subject in this fashion, with a race-against-time road trip, breathless online bidding and a couple of different happy endings, simply cheapens it.
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
Rotten
The filmmaker tries to keep the energy up and the audience engaged by incorporating stylistic touches from the Michael Bay 101 crib sheet, whirling the camera around characters in crisis and lacing scenes with hack guitar rock.
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh
Grim, hard to take, and nightmare-producing, Trade is not for the faint of heart.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Fresh
I was moved.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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