Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Kevin KlineRay Sheridan
- Cesar RamosJorge
- Paulina GaitánAdriana
- Alicja Bachleda-CuruśVeronica
- Marco PérezManuelo
- Linda EmondPatty Sheridan
- Zack WardAlex Green
- Kate del CastilloLaura
- Pasha D. LychnikoffVadim Youchenko
- Natalia TravenLupe
Recommandations
- 75
USA Today
Trade unflinchingly sheds light on a heinous crime. Yes, it's tough to sit through. But don't let that keep you away. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
As a movie, Trade is so-so, but as an exposé of how the new globalized industry of sex trafficking really works, it's a disquieting, eye-opening bulletin. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
The story's incredible coincidences, lazy cynicism and easy ironies recast a real-life horror story as easy-to-dismiss melodrama, complete with sequential "happy" endings. - 50
ReelViews
With a movie of this sort, the viewer expects to undergo something grueling and disturbing. Trade's inability to deliver that sort of visceral experience makes it unworthy of anyone's hard-earned dollars. - 42
The A.V. Club
Trade is a pulpy Hollywood-style melodrama disguised as a harrowing message movie about Important Social Issues. It labors under the delusion that it's this year's revelatory, eye-opening Maria Full Of Grace, when it's little more than a B-movie with an overwrought conscience. - 38
Boston Globe
Human trafficking is an awful societal issue, and Trade happens to be an awful movie about human trafficking. - 30
Variety
Little more than a slipshod, trashy, sometimes exploitative thriller. - 30
Village Voice
It's pure exploitation--the kind of movie after which you need a long, hot shower. German director Marco Kreuzpaintner's movie looks like "Traffic" and "Syriana"--clearly his role models--but is little more than our generation's version of 1979's "Hardcore."
