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Jimmy Smits, Ana de la Reguera, Joaquín Cosio, Marco Pérez, Aejandro Calva ... see more see more... , Asur Zágada , Ivan Cortes

A production of Paramount Pictures Mexico with an all-star Hispanic cast including Jimmy Smits, Joaquin Cosio and Ana de la Reguera, the tense thriller El Traspatio concerns a spree of serial killings... read more read more... in the North Mexico border town of Juarez that prompts an elaborate, complex homicide investigation. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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Unrated, 2 hr. 2 min.

Directed by: Carlos Carrera

Release Date: February 20, 2009

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DVD Release Date: October 26, 2010

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  • blacksheepboy
    May 26, 2010
    blacksheepboy
    Carrera and screenwriter Sabina Berman approach a serious social matter with much competence, presenting us the open wound of Cd. Juárez, Mexico, a land in turmoil over an appaling series of unceasing sexually-related murders of women.
  • fernandorafael
    November 8, 2009
    fernandorafael
    Wow! Did Mexico choose the wrong film to submit for the 2009 Academy Awards or what?

    It has to be a pretty shitty year in movies to think BACKYARD's the best our country has to offer, especially after the incredible ARRÁNCAME LA VIDA ("Tear This Heart Out", last year's submiss... read moreion).

    Clichéd, filled with plot holes and cartoonish characters, BACKYARD turns one of Mexico's worst crises (female murders in Ciudad Juárez) into a joke. Revered writer Sabina Berman fails, providing a laughable script.

    Carlos Carrera might just be Mexico's most overrated director, so I expected more disappointing work from him (after EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO). I was right: everything but the first and last scene is garbage. Amid all this waste of celluloid, Ana de la Reguera's sublime performance is a breath of fresh air. The girl can act.
  • John2223
    September 13, 2009
    John2223
    From the director of ¨The Crime of Father Amaro¨ and with a script of Sabina Berman which offers an interesting, raw and cruel vision of the case of ' The deceaseds of Juarez ' where Blanca(a police officer) will have to climb, with the support of the only urban local censor (th... read moree announcer of radio interpreted by Joaquín Cosio), a wall of indifference, concealment and complicity lifted in the proper instances of government and pursuit of justice, as atrocious as the proper acts of theft, violation, torture, mutilation and strangulation carried out on the victims.
    The performances, directing and cinematography are excellent.
    Worth a check.

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