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Release year: 2007

Storyline

A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.

Top credits

Directors

Gregory Nava

Writers

Gregory Nava

Cast

Jennifer Lopez — Lauren Adrian
Antonio Banderas — Alfonso Diaz
Maya Zapata — Eva Jimenez
Irineo Alvarez — Domingo Esparza

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Did you know

• Loosely based on a series of unsolved murders in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, an industrial border town near El Paso, Texas. Although estimates conflict, innumerable young women have been kidnapped, tortured and murdered since 1993.

• One of two films made and released in 2006 which examined the so-called "Maquiladora Murders", the other film was The Virgin of Juarez (2006).

• Actress-producer Jennifer Lopez was awarded Amnesty International's "Artists for Amnesty" Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for this film for "examining the ongoing murders of hundreds of women in a Mexican border town".