Bordertown

Bordertown

6.3IMDb Score
Released:2007-02-22
Genre:Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Duration:112 min
Country:United States of America
Director:Gregory Nava
Actors:Jennifer Lopez, Martin Sheen, Antonio Banderas, Maya Zapata, Sônia Braga
Production:Mosaic Media Group, El Norte Productions, Nuyorican Productions, Mobius Entertainment Ltd.

Overview:

American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.

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