Trade of Innocents

    Synopsis

    In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man. Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human trafficking investigator, plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for the use of the child. Claire (Mira Sorvino), Alex's wife, is caught up in the flow of her new life in Southeast Asia and her role as a volunteer in an aftercare shelter for rescued girls where lives of local neighborhood girl's freedoms and dignity are threatened. Parallel story lines intertwine and unfold twists against the backdrop of the dangerous human trafficking world, in a story of struggle, life, hope and redemption in the "TRADE of INNOCENTS."

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      Cast

      • Dermot MulroneyAlex Becker
      • Mira SorvinoClaire Becker
      • John BillingsleyMalcolm Eddery
      • Trieu TranDuke
      • Kiều Chinh(voice)
      • Tanapol ChuksridaBrothel man
      • Vithaya PansringarmNath

      Recommendations

      • 40

        The New York Times

        Part infomercial, part public-service announcement, Trade of Innocents carries such a suffocating human-rights burden that it never had much chance of becoming an actual movie. Yes, child trafficking is horrific; but embedding your raise-the-alarm mission in a film this inept runs the risk of arousing more amusement than activism.
      • 40

        The Hollywood Reporter

        This thriller about child sex trafficking is well-intentioned but dramatically stilted.
      • 38

        New York Post

        Aside from an additional 30 minutes or so of plot, Trade of Innocents offers no more than a middling episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
      • 30

        Variety

        Unfortunately, with its unconvincing action, preachy script and flat performances, the picture winds up less moving than most typical journeyman documentaries on the subject.
      • 30

        Village Voice

        Not for the first time in films, noble intent is at odds with aesthetics.
      • 25

        Slant Magazine

        Trade of Innocents is as much a piece of social-justice campaigning as it is a work unto itself, an important fact to remember when considering its many flaws.