Frontera
After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s pregnant wife tries to come to his aid and lands in the hands of corrupt coyotes who hold her for ransom. Dissatisfied with the police department’s investigation, the former sheriff tries to uncover the truth about his wife’s death and discovers disturbing evidence that will destroy one family’s future, or tear another’s apart.
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- Cast：
- Ed Harris , Eva Longoria , Michael Peña , Amy Madigan , Kristen Rakes , Seth Adkins , Lora Martinez-Cunningham
Reviews
Fantastic!
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Written and directed by Michael Berry, "Frontera" is a well-meaning but ultimately cartoonish attempt to sketch the lives of several characters living along the United States/Mexican border. And so we watch as Mexican immigrants flock north, are shot by racist white guys, are framed, scapegoated, raped and beaten, and are occasionally treated with decency by good samaritans.Berry's script – it recalls the work of John Sayles - means well, but never rises above clichés. Western capitalism's hunger for a constant influx of cheap labor, its grow-or-die imperative, its need for an expanding consumer base, and the effect this all has on local Americans, is likewise never substantially tackled. The usually interesting Michael Pena does little with a generic role. See Sayles' "Lone Star".6/10 - Bring back the forums, IMDb.
This is precisely the kind of movie I always hope to see, about as realistic as one can get to life along the border, literally from both sides of the fence. The last few minutes of the film had my adrenaline going, and the ending had me through the roof. Very few movies do that for me. What I really enjoyed was the careful balance in the drama in the quest for the truth of what happened, and holding individuals accountable for their actions. Kudos to Berry for writing and directing, along with writer Moulinet. As always, Harris delivers flawless performances throughout.If I could have voted 11 out of ten stars, I would have.
I guess the demise of Saturday morning B fare from movie screens since the sixties, has done all of these films in. It's really a shame, this was a great flick.I don't understand how a film can get a go ahead and not have predistribution rights all over it.It just seems dumb unless it was destined from the start to hit the streamers and $5 video bin from get go.I am just glad I caught it on NETFLIX.That and Hulu seem to be the elephant graveyard.It's like data mining for movies.
For most, I don't know if the story will warrant the high score that I give it but for me it does. Its very relevant to the times.The struggle with what is right, what you could just let happen (wrong) and the crime story behind it all is very interesting to me.The old sheriff is true to his morals. He pursues the story to its end. I am not sure if Ed Harris is my favorite, but he is good in this. Michael P is just great. Some of the film is almost too hard to watch. The struggles of folks represented are just awful. Something to keep in mind when topics about these folks come up.
