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.
Acting
J.Lo commits hard; Maya Zapata devastates as survivor Eva.
Direction
Gregory Nava brings authentic urgency to real Juárez horror.
Writing
Rage against media that only cares when Americans die.
Director
Gregory Nava
Jennifer Lopez
Lauren Adrian
Martin Sheen
George Morgan
Antonio Banderas
Alfonso Diaz
Maya Zapata
Eva Jimenez
Sônia Braga
Teresa Casillas
Kate del Castillo
Elena Diaz
Randall Batinkoff
Frank Kozerski
Juan Diego Botto
Marco Antonio Salamanca
Irineo Alvarez
Domingo Esparza
Julio Cesar Cedillo
Julio
Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
Lourdes Jimenez
Rene Rivera
Aris Rodriguez
Debrianna Mansini
Flight Attendant
J.D. Garfield
Doctor Herrera
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the actual unsolved feminicides of Ciudad Juárez, where hundreds of maquiladora workers were murdered from 1993 onward—most cases remain open.
Jennifer Lopez financed portions herself after studios balked; she later faced criticism for 'vanity project' accusations while actual Juárez activists praised her for keeping international attention on the crisis.
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