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  • Towards Darkness
  • Opened March 21, 2008 | Runtime:1 hr. 34 min.
  • R
    some strong violence, language, and a scene of sexuality
  • The son of a Colombian banker, photographer José (Roberto Urbina) lives abroad in New York. While visiting his family back home for the holidays, he is reunited with a streetwise old flame (America Ferrera) and reacquainted with the casual violence Read More
  • Cast: Roberto Urbina, David Sutcliffe, Tony Plana, William Atherton, America Ferrera
  • Director: Antonio Negret
  • Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller

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    beautiful and tragic

    by movie~nut

    a terrifying ride with an underlying current of frustration, futility and tragedy

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  • 75
    TV Guide | Maitland McDonagh

    Negret brings personal experience to the material; his own family endured two...

  • 70
    Village Voice |

    Admirably tough-minded if overstuffed, Towards Darkness delivers on its...

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    The Colombian tourist board won't be too happy about Antonio Negret's...

  • 50
    Variety | Ronnie Scheib

    A convoluted bilingual thriller about a kidnapping in Colombia, Towards...

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