City of Dreams
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8/29/2024Runtime
114 minsOverview
A Mexican teenager whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are disrupted when his mother dies. He's smuggled across the border with the promise of a better life but is instead sold to a sweatshop in downtown LA.
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A harrowing portrait of exploitation that follows a teenager's descent from dreams of athletic escape into the machinery of human trafficking. It's a tough watch that doesn't look away from its subject's suffering, but finds moments of resistance within it.
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