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  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • 1091 Pictures
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • 1091 Pictures
  • 1 h 21 m

Summary In Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help. As the Ochoas try to make a living in this fraught industry, they struggle to keep their dire finances from compromising the people in their care.

Directed By: Luke Lorentzen

Written By: Luke Lorentzen

  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • 1091 Pictures
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • 1091 Pictures
  • 1 h 21 m

Midnight Family

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary In Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help. As the Ochoas try to make a living in this fraught industry, they struggle to keep their dire finances from compromising the people in their care.

Directed By: Luke Lorentzen

Written By: Luke Lorentzen

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100
Dec 6, 2019
This is one of the great contemporary films about the look and feel of a big city after dark, luxuriating in the vastness of almost-empty avenues lit by buzzing streetlamps. It's a real-life answer to fiction movies like "Taxi Driver," "Bringing Out the Dead," "Collateral," "Nightcrawler" and "The Sweet Smell of Success."
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Feb 1, 2019
Portraits of institutional dysfunction don’t come much more urgent, and quietly bleak, than this.
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80
Feb 26, 2020
Somehow Lorentzen shows that it is not the Ochoa family who are the bad guys, but the whole rotten system.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 1, 2019
It’s a very exciting, sad, yet extremely funny film.
By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 2, 2019
It’s the mix of the humane and the calculating that gives the film its empathetic power.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 12, 2019
What’s indelible in this visceral chronicle is that more than profiting from human suffering, the Ochoas fill the gaps of economic inequality while doing good without reservation.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
67
Jan 8, 2020
By telling a Mexican story, Lorentzen arguably speaks more directly to an American audience.
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Production Company Hedgehog Films, No Ficción
Release Date Dec 6, 2019
Duration 1 h 21 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.lukelorentzen.com/
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Guadalajara International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
St. Petersburg Message to Man Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations

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