Highway Patrolman
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1h 44m
Directed by Alex Cox • 1991 • Mexico, Japan
Starring Roberto Sosa, Bruno Bichir, Vanessa Bauche
Renegade director Alex Cox decamped to Mexico for this potent, surrealist-streaked moral drama about what it means to hold onto one’s integrity in the face of overwhelming corruption. Against his father’s wishes, Pedro (Roberto Sosa), a naive kid from Mexico City, joins the Federal Highway Patrol. His simple desire to do good rapidly comes into conflict with the reality of police work in a lonely rural environment populated by poor farmers, rich drug dealers, beautiful women—and his father’s ghost.
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