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- 1982
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
- 1982
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
Summary A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Directed By: Tony Richardson
Written By: Deric Washburn, Walon Green, David Freeman
- 1982
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
- 1982
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
The Border
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Summary A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Directed By: Tony Richardson
Written By: Deric Washburn, Walon Green, David Freeman
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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36% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
66
64% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Richardson is able to encompass so much in the widescreen frame that he shows how the whole corrupt mess works.
A tough, effective, socially conscious melodrama in the old Warner Brothers tradition. [15 Feb 1982]
The Border is a well-made action-adventure film enhanced by authentic settings and a superlative performance by Jack Nicholson. [08 Feb 1982]
The Border is marvelously detailed. The script, by Deric Washburn, Walon Green, David Freeman, is peppered with lively obscenities and slights that communicate the debauched cynicism of this world.
Despite Jack Nicholson's multi-leveled performance, The Border is a surprisingly uninvolving film.
Despite fine performances from its lead actors, The Border fails to involve the viewer at more than a perfunctory level.
Although it has been made with intelligence, is well directed and acted and is in touch with the ways of lower-middle-class American life, it has the sort of predictable outrage and shape of a made-for-television movie. It has suspense but little excitement.
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