Sold
Sold
| 01 April 2016 (USA)
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Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. When the Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's father says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution...

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Contentar

Best movie of this year hands down!

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Grimossfer

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

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Guillelmina

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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Roxie

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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Paul Magne Haakonsen

I happened to find "Sold" by random luck, and after having read the synopsis of the movie, I decided to give it a watch, because the synopsis sounded like a storyline that could make for an emotional and interesting movie.It happened to turn out that "Sold" was quite entertaining, especially because it was very believable, and it had some very convincing performances from the cast. Of course, it deals with a rather disturbing topic, but something that actually does take place around the world. And the fact that this is something that could very well happen around the world adds authenticity to the movie."Sold" is the type of movie that gets under your skin and sticks with you for a long, long time. And a big round of applause should go out to writer Joseph Kwong, as well as writer and director Jeffrey D. Brown for the result that they accomplished with this movie.The cast in "Sold" really performed amazingly well in this movie, and that statement applies to everyone on the cast ensemble. I was especially impressed with Niyar Saikia (playing Lakshmi), as she at that young age carried the movie so well and performed really well. Initially I was a little bit hesitant about Gillian Anderson being in the movie, but it turned out that she surprised with her performance here. It should also be said that Sushmita Mukherjee (playing Mumtaz).While you might be appalled by what happens throughout the course of the movie, remember that it is just a movie. But the impact of the storyline and the events portrayed herein have that much more sway to them as you know that things like this actually happen across the world.If you enjoy dramas that are based on real life events, then "Sold" is definitely a movie that you should take the time to sit down and watch.

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Ayub Khan

Am a student in Edison High school Located in Minneapolis Minnesota, USA am still learning this book and this book made me feel back in home. when i was in Somalia, People in Africa don't really know the value of girl in home, Like In Africa most girls are been married the age of 14 to 17. Just look is a girl of 16 years of age mentally and physically strong. The answer is no. But still many people are still doing. It is really bad to give a young girl and old man just because he have money. So i wanna beg all the people who are reading this article that a girl should be given as high respect and authority a man is been given.

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waqjs

This is happening for decades, I wouldn't call it here as human/child trafficking but child abuse. Most of the locals are shown abusing those children, however, flights are going filled with foreigners to this country to enjoy their sick/evil minded desires, otherwise what's there really worth watching what you don't have in other parts of the world. Thanks to the daring Director and Producer to bring it up to the general public. As well as the local actors, who could be receiving threats from the nationalist parties' workers. What surprises me that local Police is fully involved and helping them and that's how the crime sustain. Also, their corrupt politicians who know everything but showing total different face of their society in order to gain power over the world with that local conditions and how would they make it better for millions of kids abused on daily basis I don't know. Calcutta is just a small piece in this puzzle. I have read some reviews from US that its happening there too, kindly do not compare it with any country may be with other Far Eastern poor nations but this is really ugly. Because if Police finds out in US something like this they wouldn't give long dates for raid, they will put all the efforts to stop it and prevent it from happening.

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subxerogravity

This movie was disturbing and uncomfortable.Sold centers around a 12 year old girl who ends up owing a lot of money and is sold into the life of prostitution in order to pay it back.what was most disturbing was not what was said, but what was seen on the screen. The ease these people had taking away a child's innocent for money. The large amount of children in the Brothels. The film shows these people's comfort in the life which made me so very uncomfortable.David Arquette and Gillian Anderson have very small roles as the white faces attempting to close down the brothel, and I must say, they were a sight for very sore eyes as it was hard to stomach a child living her life in this place. This movie is not met to entertain at all, it is purely educational. They lay down all the facts and don't sugar coat or romance it at all. It was a hard watch but it was worth it.

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