A young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.A young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.A young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.
- Awards
- 14 wins & 18 nominations total
Felipe Castro
- Marero
- (as Sixto Felipe Castro)
Kristyan Ferrer
- El Smiley
- (as Kristian Ferrer)
Giovani Florido
- El Sipe
- (as Giovanni Florido)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCary Fukunaga spent two years researching the film, spending time with people on the trains and with gangsters in Central America. He also used two gang members to script edit making the slang and language as up to date and realistic as possible.
- GoofsThe teardrop tattoo on el Casper's right eye is missing in two consecutive scenes on the top of the train but is visible on his face throughout the movie both before and after these scenes on the train. Interestingly, the tattoo is an important identifying mark/symbol in the movie and is specifically highlighted by gang members when asking locals if they have seen Casper as they try to find him and hunt him down.
- SoundtracksSONG FOR BOB
Composed by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
From the Motion Picture Score of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
(Film Festival prints only)
Featured review
I saw this beautifully crafted new film at Sundance and was completely entranced. The cinematography and design is astounding. The new faces and local actors give everything for the project. The writer/director did an extensive amount of research including riding on the tops of trains with immigrants crossing Mexico, and spending time with MS gang members. And indeed the film is full of all kinds of personal, empirical moments that reach up and contrast the violence and epic quality of the piece. Ultimately the film has a very classical quality that evokes an "Odyssey" kind of timelessness. Everyone should go see this in the theatres the moment it comes out. Great, great first film.
Details
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,536,665
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $81,446
- Mar 22, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $5,102,705
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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