Human Trafficking
by Christian Duguay
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Actor: Mira Sorvino; Donald Sutherland; R??my Girard; Isabelle Blais; Laurence Leboeuf; Vlasta Vrana; C??line Bonnier; Mark Antony Krupa; Lynne Adams; David Boutin; Emma Campbell; Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse; Robert Carlyle; Larry Day; Matt Holland; Fanny-Laure Malo; Andrew Simms; Marek Vasut; Andreas Apergis; Andr?? NadeauDirector: Christian Duguay
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Human Trafficking
DVD Review: Authentic portrayal of Trafficking in Persons
Summary: 5 Stars
Human Trafficking provides an undiluted picture of trafficking in persons (TIP)and its global characteristics. Human Trafficking shows how victims are recruited through diception and coercion, how difficult it is for law enforcement to investigate TIP cases. There are few movies that everyone should see, Human Trafficking is one, both to raise global awareness of TIP and to better protect yourself and your family from becoming victims or from benefiting from TIP. DVD Review: karend
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very satisfied with the product and the timely manner in which it got to me.DVD Review: B List Movie - but commended for bringing a serious subject to surface.
Summary: 3 Stars
Most people in western culture only know about this topic to a marginal level filled with the same stereotypes placed on foreign countries. I liked how the story went accross several locations and characters to depict that this happens everywhere, even to a middle-class family from USA.
This movie being PG is good and bad. Good like others mentioned because it allows the movie to be watched as a family to raise these important issues to the common naiveties youth have. Bad becuase an R rated movie, without the director exploiting the subject, would allow so much more depth into the true horror of the situation, to really cause the viewer to feel affected by the pain endured by these individuals. Essentially allowing the subject to stay with you and haunt you, to make the viewer mad enough to want to be part of the solution.
The movie itself does a good job of bringing light to the subject in many forms. Because of the subject matter and length of the DVD, viewers erge to have the 'hollywood ending' of everything going to be alright at the end. If only it could always be that way. A true movie on the subject would unfortunately spare this type of ending, and create awareness at the end, opposed to just statistics. As the other 2 star reviews mentioned, there are several pits in the story. The dad travelling to save his daughter is complete hollywood. Especially becuase when he gets there he just has to watch it happen and can't do anything about it, until the true to life rarity of the police saving the day.
This movie is a complete straight to DVD release though in terms of its camera work, acting, subdued in the background music, and the overall story stucture. Mira Sorvino is really stiff in this performance. Most of the time she is very monotoned with only the odd exception. There was some overacting, and some underacting (most notibly from the american parents who just didn't show enough real life panic and devestation. And the stupidity of the mother screaming at the offender on the phone when that could easily get her daughter killed).
Would I recommend seeing the movie - absolutely. Its one of the few with this subject matter, and it really opens your eyes to the subject. I however feel there is so much more to be had on one of the touchiest subjects most of the world has isolated their attention from. Its insane how people in modern time can literally lose their identity, freedom, and most of all - their humanity. I really hope in the future this subject will be treated to academy award winning performances from screenplay writers and directors with years of research on the subject; instead of just exploiting it like in the movie 'Taken'. (and in addition, a well thought out documentary would be nice too) In the meantime, there are a number of good books 'not for sale' and 'a crime so montrous.' Unlike anything i've ever seen before, this subject really encourages me to see what I can do to help, and I hope more likeminded people can help stop today's greatest tragedy.
DVD Review: inportant to watch
Summary: 5 Stars
everyone should watch this movie. it informed me about human trafficking but had other things going on as well.DVD Review: very realistic film
Summary: 5 Stars
very realistic film a must see movie for every one in the family this is a reality we all should get serious.
Description of Human Trafficking
Nominated for Two Golden Globes? - Best Actress and Best Actor in a TV Miniseries; Lifetime Television's most-watched miniseries of 2005. Featuring Emmy? and Golden Globe? Award winner Donald Sutherland (The Italian Job), Academy Award? and Golden Globe? Award winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle, Human Trafficking is at once a gripping thriller, a cautionary tale, and one of the most fundamentally important stories of our time. DVD Features include: Interviews with Mira Sorvino and Robert Carlyle, Behind the Scenes with the cast and crew, and A "Take Action" Guide to shop human trafficking now!The Lifetime cable channel made TV history with this ambitious, acclaimed original miniseries on the horrifying phenomenon of human trafficking, or sexual slavery. It follows the fictional cases of young women around the world, lured or abducted, sometimes right off the street, into a world of unspeakable brutality--which the filmmakers show in almost overwhelming detail at times. Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland star as American government officials bent on exposing and stopping the phenomenon, and both are more than serviceable in their roles. But the revelation is Robert Carlyle, the Scottish star of The Full Monty and Trainspotting, who here is transformed into a ruthless criminal mastermind behind his own trafficking network. Even his Eastern European accent is spot-on and blood-chilling. The supporting cast of women and girls is strong, and in some cases, truly heartbreaking. And while sometimes almost unbearably harsh, the film serves as a reminder this terrible situation still exists and thrives; and told through the characters, is also a well-paced thriller. --A.T. Hurley
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