Icebox

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Icebox

2018

1h 26m

Drama

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Óscar, a 12-year-old Honduran boy who is forced to flee his home and seek asylum in the United States, finds himself trapped inside the U.S. immigration system.

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Eric Deggans

NPR

12/15/2018

Swedish director Daniel Sawka has created a film as authentic and direct as a news report.

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Brian Lowry

CNN.com

12/07/2018

Like the best drama, "Icebox" is defined by its humanity, putting a face on asylum seekers in a way news coverage only occasionally does. From that perspective it feels like HBO is performing a public service,

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John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

12/07/2018

Icebox is not a documentary. But it does have a spare, naturalistic and awkwardly acted style that helps sell its story, which goes only so far into the legal nuances or politics of the detainee crisis on the southern border.

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

02/11/2021

The greatest strength of Icebox is that the filmmakers have decided, to their credit, to tell the story from the point of view of a 12-year-old Honduran refugee and with unquestionable sympathy and anger.

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Mark A. Perigard

Boston Herald

12/08/2018

B-

To writer and director Daniel Sawka's credit, the film ends on a poignant note, but it's hard to find any hope in this story. Oscar's uncertain journey shows no sign of ever ending, not for the rest of his life. In that, "Icebox" chills.

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@Loonsan 08/01/2022

Drama of the unknown journey for greener pasture but dunno where the ice...

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10/28/2019

love the story and the actor johnny Ortiz

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10/02/2019

This movie sucks! Obviously has an agenda behind it and that's to try and make Americans feel bad for a group of people that can't get their shit together and that America needs to take care of them and pay their way.. wake up America you are being exploited!! When will you wise up and realize that illegal aliens are getting catered too and taken care of better then legal citizens that sacrificed limbs and blood for this country. Pretty good deal for the illegals I must say. Pretty damn crazy Americans can't figure out their getting completely screwed and having to pay for it as well! Wake up peeps!!

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09/28/2019

The movie was very touching and realistic. The one thing I do dislike very much is when portraying people from other countries in this instance from Honduras why the producers use mexican actors instead of real Hondurans. It is insulting specially when they use half hounduran words with a mexican accent!!! Next time please go the extra mile by getting real actors from the country the story is based from.

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02/18/2019

Very amazing story, powerful

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01/10/2019

Brainfood for idiots. Emotive propaganda

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Óscar, a 12-year-old Honduran boy who is forced to flee his home and seek asylum in the United States, finds himself trapped inside the U.S. immigration system.

Director: Daniel Sawka
Producer: James L. Brooks, Julie Ansell, David S. Greathouse, Richard Sakai
Screenwriter: Daniel Sawka
Production Co: Gracie Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 8, 2018
Runtime: 1h 26m

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