Bisbee '17

20182018
PGPG
1h 52min

An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations ... Read allAn old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.

6.7/10

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Director
- Robert Greene
Stars

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Awards
- 2 wins & 15 nominations

Fernando Serrano and Jeremey M. Caron in Bisbee '17 (2018)

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Kate Plays Christine

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Actress

6.9

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

6.4

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

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Taglines
- The Past is Present
Genres
- Documentary
- Western
Certificate
- PG
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Top review

3/10

Interesting Topic, Bad Presentation

The film makers took an interesting historical incident and in an effort to add "drama" or something ended up with a boring series of meandering shots that left me actually asking the television if we could please get on with the story. It opens with a long shot of a guy standing alone in front of an empty school building first asking some guy to keep everyone quiet and out of the shot, then stands there doing and saying nothing for what seems like forever and the rest proceeds at the same snails pace. When they got to some weird side story about Tombstone, AZ and how they're "Second Amendment City" I finally gave up. Apparently it is possible to make someone stop caring about a story simply through bad self-indulgent film making. Just read the Wikipedia article and you'll get the gist without all the "Indie Film" foolishness.

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