Ashley lives in a trailer, works at a big box store in
Austin and is trying to get her life together. She is struggling after Child Protective Services removed
her five-year-old son from her custody.
She feels he will remain with his current foster mother no matter what
she does because she is poor and the foster mother has everything. She owns a home, lives in a nice
neighborhood and has a fenced yard and a swing set. How can Ashley compete? Ashley’s father pays a surprise visit and he takes her to
Mexico in his commercial truck. He
gives her some money and she learns he has made the money by smuggling Mexicans
over the border. This gives her an
idea.
This is a quiet, slow moving film filled with a lot of
contemplation. You want to root
for Ashley but she doesn’t seem to “get” what it will really take to get her
son back. The young girl she
meets in Mexico already has all the qualities Ashley is
lacking. 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
94 min, Drama directed by David Riker with Abbie Cornish,
Geoffrey Rivas, Austin West, Annalee Jefferies, Will Patton, Giovanna Zacarias,
Luci Christian, Tia Carrere.
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