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Illegal Tender
This film revolves around this teenager who is experiencing a different experience. The events start when the thugs who killed his father came looking for him. Now, this Latin teenager and his mother Wanda have been forced to flee their home. Things seem to turn completely when this last came with vengeance, but Wanda no longer works. Wanda aims to change his destination where he chose to fight the sins of the past.
4 April 1954, Millburn, New Jersey, USA
25 October 1973, Bronx, New York, USA
30 June 1979, New York City, New York, USA
26 May 1972
5 May 1969, Baitoa, Santiago, Dominican Republic
29 May 1979, Medellin, Colombia
2 February 1999, New York City, New York, USA
8 November 1979, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
9 December 1956
26 November 1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
26 August 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
1 February 1972, San Juan, Puerto Rico
December 29, 2007
bland and forgettable.
September 20, 2007
You know the film is off to a paltry start when you see the rookie Rick Gonzalez attempt to strut bad-boy, awww-yeah stuff. Instead, he feels like a 21-year-old boy just going through puberty.
September 13, 2008
Clearly aware of the impact of visual style on the narrative, Jonathan Ogilvie uses a stylised 1920 Australian setting for a love triangle that involves all the basic drivers of human frailty
December 17, 2007
Brainless bloodsport, Cholo-style.
August 25, 2007
For a film about growing up, Illegal Tender loses itself in a lot of silly juvenilia.
January 28, 2008
There are so many chances for Illegal Tender to get things right that it's depressing to realize that it misses all of them.
December 12, 2007
An entertaining genre piece boasting a terrifically sinewy lead performance from Wanda De Jesus.
August 24, 2007
Plenty of movies have combined a blazing-guns revenge story with a family dynamics drama, but Illegal Tender never gets the mixture right, lurching between bullet-happy shootouts and overwrought domestic content.
August 24, 2007
Illegal Tender isn't quite the mess you expect this time of year, a film that achieves a certain level of originality by reversing gender roles.
August 27, 2007
What in God's name was going on with this movie?
December 03, 2007
More care seems to have been taken with the cut of Gonzalez's sideburns than with the shape of the story, and the hyperbolic soundtrack does most of the work of the mise en scene.
