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Borderline (1980)

Borderline poster
Directed by
Jerrold Freedman
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 53 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Border Patrol agent goes undercover as a migrant worker to stop a killer who smuggles people from Mexico to the United States. The film follows his dangerous mission along the San Diego-Tijuana border.

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What happens

Borderline is a 1980 American action crime drama film directed and co-written by Jerrold Freedman. Starring Charles Bronson, Ed Harris and Bruno Kirby, it is set in the San Diego–Tijuana area of the U.S.-Mexican border and follows a United States Border Patrol (USBP) Agent who poses as an illegal alien to catch a killer smuggling laborers from Mexico. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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