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The Border 1982 123movies

The Border 1982 123movies

He is as divided as the land itself.Jan. 29, 1982108 Min.
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Watch: The Border 1982 123movies, Full Movie Online – U.S. Border Patrol agent Charlie Smith just wants to do a good job and provide for his wife. But between her demands for a more affluent lifestyle and the importuning of Charlie’s partner Cat to take part in illegal activities in exchange for bribes, Charlie gets caught up in helping smuggle illegal immigrants across the Texas border. When one of them, a young Mexican girl named Maria, loses her baby to abductors who plan to sell the child, Charlie decides to take a stand for her and against the corruption he’s fallen into..
Plot: A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman’s baby is put up for sale on the black market.
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6.4/10 Votes: 6,692
65% | RottenTomatoes
66/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 98 Popularity: 8.282 | TMDB

Reviews:

Underrated and overlooked, but definitely worthwhile
Although this is not a great film it is a lot better than its reputation. Jack Nicholson is excellent and Harvey Keitel is very good. The beautiful and beguiling Mexican actress, Elpidia Carrillo, handles a limited role with enough artistry to make me wonder why I never heard of her before. Turns out she does have a healthy list of credits both internationally and in the US.

The direction by Tony Richardson, who had his heyday in the sixties with films as varied as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Tom Jones (1963), and The Loved One (1965), all adapted from novels, is at times inspired and artistic, and at other times as ordinary as dishwater. I don’t think he was able to make up his mind while directing this film about whether he wanted win an award at Cannes or Venice or to just sell some tickets. As it turns out he did neither as well as he might have. Nonetheless as a snapshot of poor Mexican immigrants (and would-be immigrants) as they clash with the border patrol culture twenty-some years ago The Border is definitely worth a look. Particularly vivid is the depiction of the absurdities and hypocrisies among the coyotes, the “wets,” the border patrol rank-and-file, the law and the realities of life along both sides of the thin strip separating the promised land from the third world.

Nicholson plays Charlie Smith, a border patrol cop with a trailer trash wife (Valerie Perrine) who yearns to move up to the luxury of duplex living. In particular she wants to move in next door to her high school girlfriend Savannah (Shannon Wilcox) who is married to the “Cat” (Harvey Keitel). Charlie Smith is a bit of an innocent who was satisfied with his trailer home and his sexy, loving, but not overly sharp, wife Mary. When they do pick up and move to Texas he runs headlong into the corrupt lifestyle of the Cat and the cruel realities of his job which consists of arresting illegal immigrants and sending them back to Mexico. Meanwhile Mary isn’t just sitting home twiddling her thumbs. Instead she is out buying water beds and dinette sets, overstuffed chairs and sofas, and other knickknacks that put a strain on the couple’s budget which leads Charlie into temptation. But when taking kickbacks turns to murder, Charlie draws the line in the sand (literally as it happens) and he and the Cat have a rather rude falling out.

Meanwhile Charles spots Carrillo as the lovely Maria with babe in arms and a little brother at her side. Predictably the system cruelly exploits her, bringing Charlie to her rescue.

I think the striking contrast between Charlie’s air-headed Mary and the desperate and needy Maria needed to be further explored. As it was played Charlie is just a good joe doing a good deed or two when in fact we know he is much more involved than that. I think the movie would have been improved by making him choose between the two women as he had to make the moral choice between going with the Cat’s corruption or going against him.

See this for Jack Nicholson, one of the great actors of our time, who brings subtlety and veracity to a role that could have been ordinary, while giving us only a hint of the commanding and irreverent style that he would adopt in later years.

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Review By: DennisLittrell
Why do I love it?
This movie is very tragic and depressing. The whole subject about illegal immigrants is sad in it self, and on top of that, every good guy we meet in the flick gets screwed over. There is almost no humor at any point, and you actually get a bit depressed watching it. But I still loved it. I seriously don’t know why… Maybe because of the acting, which was fantastic. Jack Nicholson isn’t even the best performer here. Harvey Keitel neither. The Mexican actors are brilliant too. There is a lot of violence, but it’s relatively tasteful, and one gets a feeling, they’re just describing a border cops everyday life. The cinematography could have been better, but it seems the director used all his energy to get the actors to act their A..es off.
Review By: davidogdavid

Other Information:

Original Title The Border
Release Date 1982-01-29
Release Year 1982

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 48 min (108 min)
Budget 22000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Tony Richardson
Writer Deric Washburn, Walon Green, David Freeman
Actors Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,965 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm

The Border 1982 123movies
The Border 1982 123movies
The Border 1982 123movies
Original title The Border
TMDb Rating 6.1 98 votes

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