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MOVIE · 2012

Get the Gringo

ActionAdventureComedyCrimeDramaThriller96 min

After Mexican authorities catch him, a career criminal is dumped into a prison that runs by its own rules, and the only person willing to help him navigate it is a 9-year-old boy. Mel Gibson is the thief at the center, trying to stay alive long enough to understand the place and the people who control it. Daniel Giménez Cacho and Jesús Ochoa appear in the orbit of a jailhouse world that feels less like a cellblock than a closed economy, with its own hierarchies, deals, and punishments.

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