Kevin Kline,
Cesar Ramos,
Alicja Bachleda,
Paulina Gaitan,
Marco Pérez
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After his 13-year-old sister is abducted by sex traffickers, a determined Mexican teen travels from the barrios of Mexico City to a run-down stash house in New Jersey in a desperate attempt to rescue ... read more
DVD Release Date: January 29, 2008
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May 11, 2008Mind numbingly soberering. as a father of two young daughters this is my worst nightmare. The fact that the movie is based on what happens every day is a chilling reminder of how far we have yet to go as a society.
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January 6, 2012The less you know about this film, the more it hits you like a hammer. It follows a desperate Mexican boy who's adorable sister has been kidnapped into the USA, presumably as sex slave. After teaming up with cop Ray his chances get better, but it's still a hopeless race against t... read more
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February 16, 2011Awesome movie about Child abduction and sexual slave trade that goes on throughout the world. This is about a 13 year old Mexican Girl who is abducted and what her 16 year old brother does to save her. Very enjoyable and eye opener. 5 stars
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December 18, 2010Great movie showing the darkness people are capable of doing to others. Very well acted and a sweet story of a brother doing all he can to help his sister with the help of a stranger. Tough to watch a few scenes, but it brings the necessary emotions.
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December 8, 2009More or less (okay, a bit less) at par with Taken. If you aren't taken by Taken as yet, you might want to trade for a copy of Trade. Not a must watch, though.
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June 18, 2009Grim if now somewhat over familiar people trafficking 'issue' drama. Predictable plot is jolted with one fine scene on a cliff top. Kevin Kline is passable. A noble cause to highlight but not terribly entertaining.
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May 3, 2009Great film that takes you inside a world where young women are kidnapped and sold for sex. It focuses on a brother and sister in Mexico; it's the young girls 13th birthday and her older brother gives her a bicycle as a gift. As the young girl takes it out for a ride one morning s... read more
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February 28, 2008Tough film to watch but you get drawn into a world your wrost nightmare are made of.
Kevin Kline on top form and give a career best and with a cast of unknowns all give a ultra realistic performance.
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October 12, 2007Better than most message movies, though flawed in its big brother subplot.
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December 19, 2009Trade was a brutal movie, with good and strong performances about a delicate matter, the sex traffic of children and teens across the world, in this movie it was in Mexico.I found the movie brutal due to the rape scenes, the kidnappers forced the girls to drugs and abuse them sex... read more
Critic Reviews
December 3, 2007
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
October 5, 2007
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger
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 sc... Full Review
October 3, 2007
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Grim, hard to take, and nightmare-producing, Trade is not for the faint of heart. Full Review
October 1, 2007
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
I was moved.
September 28, 2007
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Other than showing how a trafficking pipeline might work, Trade is a total misfire, a strange attempt at making a buddy movie featuring a morose Kevin Kline and a 17-year-old Mexican boy looking for h... Full Review
September 28, 2007
Kyle Smith, New York Post
A routine crime melodrama with art-house message-movie pretensions. Full Review
September 28, 2007
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
The story of the victims on the road is harrowing, but the tale of the kind cop and the teenager with an attitude is a string of big brother clichés. Full Review
September 28, 2007
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
This mostly effective dramatization paints a suitably ugly picture of the dehumanizing depths people are willing to go for money. Full Review
September 28, 2007
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Trade takes on a serious, under-addressed international crime against humanity in a style that is somewhere between TV melodrama and drive-in exploitation, undoing its obvious good intentions and some... Full Review
September 28, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
A nasty, vile business, made more slimy because director Marco Kreuzpaintner doesn't trust the intrinsic interest of his story, and pumps it up with chase details, close calls, manufactured crises, an... Full Review
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