Backyard (2009)
Original title: El Traspatio
An astonishing fictional account of the unending series of murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which began in 1996. Most of the victims are low-paid laborers who have been drawn to the town by the possibility of work at American-owned factories. In the film Mexican police officer Blanca Bravo is sent to Cuidad Juarez to investigate and comes to learn realities of these women's lives, as well as the truth about a police force and local power structure embodied by entrepreneur Mickey Santos that has ceased to care.
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Ana de la RegueraBlanca
Asur ZagadaJuana Sanchez
Marco PérezFierro
Iván CortesCutberto
Jimmy SmitsMickey Santos
Alejandro CalvaComandante
Joaquín CosíoPeralta
Sayed BadreyaEl Sultán
Carolina PolitiSara
Adriana PazHilda
Lisa OwenSilvia
Juan Carlos BarretoAlvarezMovie DNA
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What is Backyard about?
An astonishing fictional account of the unending series of murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which began in 1996. Most of the victims are low-paid laborers who have been drawn to the town by the possibility of work at American-owned factories. In the film Mexican police officer Blanca Bravo is sent to Cuidad Juarez to investigate and comes to learn realities of these women's lives, as well as the truth about a police force and local power structure embodied by entrepreneur Mickey Santos that has ceased to care.
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Backyard has a runtime of 122 minutes.
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