Human Trafficking
  • Network: Lifetime
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 24, 2005
Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 4 out of 14
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Critic Reviews

  1. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    30
    Rarely rises above the level of cut-and-dried cops-and-bad-guys tale.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    20
    Sorvino is as wooden as can be throughout. Perhaps she didn't connect with her poorly written role; perhaps she's just straining to understate.
  3. Variety
    20
    Starring a miscast Mira Sorvino, "Human Trafficking" bludgeons its point home for nearly four hours, and then closes with an honest-to-God speech to ensure that nobody missed it.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    10
    Except for a few suspenseful sequences in which women and, occasionally, sympathetic parties try to escape the clutches of the slave traders, the miniseries is muddled, confused and diffuse.

Awards & Rankings

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#40 Best TV Season of 2005
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#20 Most Discussed TV Season of 2005
37
#37 Most Shared TV Season of 2005

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User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 99 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 86 out of 99
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 99
  3. Negative: 11 out of 99
  1. ssfourseas
    Apr 9, 2018
    10
    EXCELLENT! This will be etched in my brain forever. Hoping there is a Season 2. Obviously, the so called 'professional' critics have no taste.
  2. IrmarieS
    Jun 1, 2013
    10
    This is one of my favorite movies! The cast did a great job representing the different scenarios of human trafficking! It is a sad realityThis is one of my favorite movies! The cast did a great job representing the different scenarios of human trafficking! It is a sad reality Must watch is an eye opener the movie is very graphic!

    Facts:
    Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry (behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking).
    It reportedly generates a profit of $32 billion every year. Of that number, $15.5 billion is made in industrialized countries.

    According to the U.S. State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year. More than 70 percent are female and half are children.

    Two children are sold every minute.    … Full Review »
  3. CathyW.
    Dec 6, 2007
    10
    I loved this show! I've watched it so many times I really enjoy watching it and learning how people are used for trafficking and I want I loved this show! I've watched it so many times I really enjoy watching it and learning how people are used for trafficking and I want to know how to help.… Full Review »
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