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Trade (2007)

Trade poster
Directed by
Marco Kreuzpaintner
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
Germany, United States
Runtime
1h 59m
Rated
R
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 315 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl from Mexico City is kidnapped by traffickers and taken to the United States. Her brother and a police officer work to find her and expose the network of sex slavery.

tensedarkdisturbingurgentbleakgrittyemotionally heavy

What happens

Trade is a 2007 drama film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner and starring Kevin Kline. It was produced by Roland Emmerich and Rosilyn Heller. The film premiered January 23, 2007, at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and opened in limited release on September 28, 2007. It is based on Peter Landesman's article "The Girls Next Door" about sex slaves, which was featured as the cover story in the January 24, 2004, issue of The New York Times Magazine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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