2008
PG-13
Fair Trade Pictures
1 h 26 m

2008
PG-13
Fair Trade Pictures
1 h 26 m

Summary Call + Response is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. Call + Response goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2...

Directed By: Justin Dillon

Written By: Shadd Williams, Justin Dillon

2008
PG-13
Fair Trade Pictures
1 h 26 m

2008
PG-13
Fair Trade Pictures
1 h 26 m

Call + Response

Name: Call + Response
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Released: 2008-10-10
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Rating: 43
Cast: Madeleine Albright, Kevin Bales, David Batstone, Natasha Bedingfield, Cold War Kids

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Justin Dillon

Written By: Shadd Williams, Justin Dillon

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Los Angeles Times

All in all, Call + Response makes alarmingly clear how ugly, pervasive and out-in-the-open the trade in humans for sex or labor often is.

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Austin Chronicle

There is much to recommend this earnest and enraged film.

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Variety

Remarkably informative yet gracelessly constructed, jumping between documentary and concert footage at random.

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L.A. Weekly

The result is like "American Idol" meets C.A.R.E. infomercial.

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Washington Post

The result doesn't really work. The music videos don't seem connected to anything, and there's not nearly enough about the actual victims of the trade. But it's a documentary with its heart and its outrage in the right place.

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Production Company Fair Trade Pictures

Release Date Oct 10, 2008

Duration 1 h 26 m

Rating PG-13

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Madeleine Albright

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Kevin Bales

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David Batstone

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Natasha Bedingfield

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Cold War Kids

Rocco DeLuca

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Justin Dillon

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Daryl Hannah

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Gary Haugen

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Imogen Heap

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Emmanuel Jal

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Ashley Judd

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Nicholas Kristof

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Talib Kweli

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Matisyahu

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John Miller

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Moby

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John Ondrasik

Julia Ormond

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