American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Bordertown has generally received positive reviews.
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Bordertown was released in 2007 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 248 reviews, giving Bordertown (2007) an average rating of 67%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 73%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 60%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Bordertown than critics were.
With a score of 67%, Bordertown is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2007, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2007 with similar scores include films like Meet the Robinsons, Ocean's Thirteen and The Bucket List.
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