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Feb 1, 2019 · In Gerardo Naranjo’s 2012 drama, “Miss Bala,” an aspiring beauty queen is caught in the crosshairs of a cartel strike. She’s kidnapped, raped and forced to work for the gang in the hopes of finding her missing friend. It’s a bleak story, a loose reflection of how cartel violence has ruined the lives of countless innocent bystanders.
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Apr 30, 2019 · We talked to director Hardwicke about the changes she made adapting Miss Bala from its original, Spanish-language version to one geared towards English-speaking audiences, her depiction of...
Miss Bala: Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. With Gina Rodriguez, Thomas Dekker, Vivian Chan, Barbarella Pardo. Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Catherine Hardwicke
- 2019-02-01
Miss Bala. TRAILER. List. NEW. Young Gloria seeks help from the police when cartel hit men kidnap her friend from a nightclub in Mexico. She soon finds herself in big trouble when a corrupt cop...
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- Catherine Hardwicke
- PG-13
- Gina Rodriguez
The film stars Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Córdova, and Anthony Mackie, and follows a woman who trains to take down a Mexican drug cartel after her friend is kidnapped. The film was released in the United States on February 1, 2019, by Columbia Pictures, in Dolby Cinema.
Well, veteran director Catherine Hardwicke (“ Twilight ”) and first-time full feature screenwriter Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer clumsily answer that thematic question with Miss Bala, an Americanized reshaping of a 2011 Spanish-language tale with the same name.
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Oct 20, 2011 · 113 minutes. Certificate: 15. Original Title: Miss Bala. A beauty queen gets mixed up with the mob in this grittier-than-it-sounds Mexican drama. Cash-strapped Laura (Stephanie Sigman) dreams...