Thieves and Liars Movie

Thieves and Liars
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Run Time: 114 min
MPAA Rating: R
Released: 2005
Directors: Ricardo Mendez Matta
Poli Marichal
Genre/Type: Drama
Family Drama
Ensemble Film
Social Problem Film
Producers: Ricardo Mendez Matta
Poli Marichal
Plot Synopsis by Nathan Southern
Functioning as an unofficial Spanish-language equivalent of Steven Soderbergh's muckraker Traffic (2000), co-directors Ricardo Mendez Matta and Poli Marichal's meller Thieves and Liars traces the web of drug money-related corruption inherent in the Puerto Rican socioeconomic climate. As in the Soderbergh ensemble picture, Marichal and Matta interweave a number of socially relevant stories on various levels of Puerto Rican society - all about the movement of drugs from the Third World to Puerto Rico to the States. In one substory, Puerto Rican man Oscar (Steven Bauer) - in an attempt to gain revenge for the death of a friend - rubs out a drug boss, and thus sinks to a level every bit as dirty and shameless as his victim. In another, two young men, Cheo and Miguel, use drug money to support their needy grandmother. In a third, single mother and airport worker Wanda Velez (Magda Rivera) attempts to navigate her way through the byzantine Puerto Rican legal system, taking on the fly-by-night company that manipulated and conned her. And in still another substory, adolescent Luisito (Carlos Paniagua) teeters on the verge of self-destruction with illegal drug use, despite the constant admonitions of his concerned mother.

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Actors Character Born
Steven Bauer Dec 2, 1956 in Havana, Cuba
Elpidia Carrillo
Magda Rivera
Jose Heredia
Carlos Paniagua
Lymari Nadal
Dennis Mario
Daniel Lugo
Gabriela Rosario
Isidro Bobadilla
Luz María Rondón
Cesar Farrait
Arturo Paredes
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