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  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Fair Trade Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Fair Trade Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m
Call + Response

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...

Written By: Shadd Williams

  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Fair Trade Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Fair Trade Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m

Call + Response

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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...

Written By: Shadd Williams

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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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There is much to recommend this earnest and enraged film.
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Remarkably informative yet gracelessly constructed, jumping between documentary and concert footage at random.
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The result is like "American Idol" meets C.A.R.E. infomercial.
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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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