A police detective investigates the truth behind his partner's death. The mysterious case reveals disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.A police detective investigates the truth behind his partner's death. The mysterious case reveals disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.A police detective investigates the truth behind his partner's death. The mysterious case reveals disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.
Gabe Vargas
- Manuel 'Rocky' De La Cruz
- (as Gabriel Vargas)
Ariel Pacheco
- Naldo
- (as Ariel Rolando Pacheco)
Ismael Cruz Cordova
- Jose De La Cruz
- (as Ismael Cruz Córdova)
Laura Gómez
- Eva De La Cruz
- (as Laura Gomez)
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- Writer
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- TriviaThe original story was a surreal bi-lingual drama, reminiscent of Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Irréversible (2002) that focused on child abuse, violence towards women, mass incarceration and police violence committed under the color of authority. However, the movie was sold to Lionsgate Premiere, which thought it had been sold a Keanu Reeves cop thriller. During the editing process, Lionsgate Premiere changed the story's focus to center on Reeves' character, and changed the movie into a generic crime-thriller. Gee Malik Linton wrote and directed the film, but since Lionsgate Premiere and the producers edited the film without his approval, The Directors Guild of America (DGA) allowed him to take his name off the credits. He is still listed as writer, but his directing credit is listed as "Declan Dale".
- GoofsJose wraps the pork butt in a plastic bag rather than butcher paper. Reputable butchers always use butcher paper, rather than plastic, which is nonporous.
- Quotes
Detective Galban: There's this girl, she knows what happened. What am I going to do, bring her in? She'd be dead in a week.
- Alternate versionsThe writer/director intended the movie to be a dual language, Spanish/English social drama about violence towards women and child abuse. The producers instead turned the movie into Keanu Reeves cop thriller. An alternate version that follows the director's vision was edited by Roman Polanski's longtime editor, Hervé de Luze
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Written by Miguel Eugenio Gonzalez & Pablo E. Gonzalez Yermenos
Performed by M. Eye
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Featured review
No it's not without it's flaws but overall I didn't feel like it was a waste of time watching it and I did think it succeeded on most parts.
I've heard people talk about this movie as very weird and not understanding what it was about but I thought they did very well at wrapping lose ends together in the end and explaining the "weird" elements, even though you kind of have to tie the points together yourself.
Maybe some people simply forgot to put the subtitles on and was lost because of that (40% of it is in Spanish).
And the acting was good overall with Ana De Armas and Keanu Reeves in the leads, both who also did KNOCK KNOCK together, they get to showcase a little more acting range here though. Rapper Big Daddy Kane has a fairly big supporting role as a crimeboss and he's not too bad either.
It should be noted though that there might be a director's cut coming out at some point because the studio decided that in order to sell it as a Keanu Reeves vehicle (who was only originally meant to be a supporting role) remove chunks of Ana De Armas and the Latino family's scenes and make it more thriller based where as the original intent was always drama.
It still has plenty of that and I still think it works but I can imagine that the DC might be better (and more of a crowd pleaser).
But it made the director so angry at the studio that he asked to have him credited under a pseudonym.
Should also be noted though I suppose that sometimes the director doesn't know best in these cases either, for instance Tony Kaye had infamous fights with Edward Norton regarding the cut of American HISTORY X and that still turned out to be pretty good (not comparing the 2 quality-wise though just making a point).
Now I should be noted to just shut up and let you decide if you want to watch it or not.
I've heard people talk about this movie as very weird and not understanding what it was about but I thought they did very well at wrapping lose ends together in the end and explaining the "weird" elements, even though you kind of have to tie the points together yourself.
Maybe some people simply forgot to put the subtitles on and was lost because of that (40% of it is in Spanish).
And the acting was good overall with Ana De Armas and Keanu Reeves in the leads, both who also did KNOCK KNOCK together, they get to showcase a little more acting range here though. Rapper Big Daddy Kane has a fairly big supporting role as a crimeboss and he's not too bad either.
It should be noted though that there might be a director's cut coming out at some point because the studio decided that in order to sell it as a Keanu Reeves vehicle (who was only originally meant to be a supporting role) remove chunks of Ana De Armas and the Latino family's scenes and make it more thriller based where as the original intent was always drama.
It still has plenty of that and I still think it works but I can imagine that the DC might be better (and more of a crowd pleaser).
But it made the director so angry at the studio that he asked to have him credited under a pseudonym.
Should also be noted though I suppose that sometimes the director doesn't know best in these cases either, for instance Tony Kaye had infamous fights with Edward Norton regarding the cut of American HISTORY X and that still turned out to be pretty good (not comparing the 2 quality-wise though just making a point).
Now I should be noted to just shut up and let you decide if you want to watch it or not.
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- Oct 28, 2016
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- Hija de Dios
- Filming locations
- New York City, New York, USA(establishing shots)
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- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $269,915
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