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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

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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.

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All reviews
34%
Tomatometer
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
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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