Holly
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  • Summary: Patrick, an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts, has been comfortably numb in Cambodia for years when he encounters Holly, a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, in the K11 red-light village. The girl has been sold by her impoverished family and smuggled across the border to work as a prostitute. Holly's virginity makes her a lucrative prize, and when she is sold to a child trafficker, Patrick embarks on a frantic search through both the beautiful and sordid faces of the country in an attempt to bring her to safety. Harsh yet poetic, this feature forms part of the K11 Project, dedicated to raising awareness of the epidemic of child trafficking and the sex-slavery trade through several film projects. The film's producers endured substantial hardships in order to be able to shoot in Cambodia and have also founded the RedLight Children Campaign, a worldwide grassroots initiative generating conscious concern and inspiring immediate action against child sexploitation. (Priority Films)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    75
    The filmmaker's vision is harrowingly ugly and profoundly upsetting every step of the way.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Stephen Farber
    70
    An unsparing look at child prostitution is a hard sell for audiences, but this movie is a memorable achievement, far superior to the recently released "Trade," another movie about sex trafficking.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    Half drama, half social tract, Guy Moshe's feature debut is meant to illustrate the horrors of child prostitution in Southeast Asia. The intentions, unfortunately, are more notable than the execution.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    38
    A dreary message movie.

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  1. DesmondP.
    3
    Maybe the worst movie of the year. Certainly the worst acting. Small wonder it has been on the shelf for so long.

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