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Illegal Tender
When the thugs who killed his father come looking for him, a young Latino teen and his mother Wanda were forced to flee from her home. Now that past has returned with a vengeance, but Wanda isn't running anymore. He chooses to battle the sins of the past.
12 September 1966, Bronx, New York, USA
1 February 1972, San Juan, Puerto Rico
5 July 1939, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2 February 1999, New York City, New York, USA
8 November 1979, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
26 August 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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.
December 12, 2007
An entertaining genre piece boasting a terrifically sinewy lead performance from Wanda De Jesus.
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.
August 27, 2007
What in God's name was going on with this movie?
December 29, 2007
bland and forgettable.
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.
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.
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 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.
