| HBO | Season Premiere Date: December 7, 2018 |
Summary:
The parents of 12-year-old Óscar (Anthony Gonzalez) decide he must leave Honduras after being targeted by a local gang. His journey to locate his uncle in Arizona is thwarted when he is captured by Border Patrol and put in "the icebox," the processing center for children in this film based on Daniel Sawka's short film.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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Dec 7, 2018
A wrenching, harrowing movie about one Honduran boy's quest for asylum, and the conditions he faces after being apprehended in the United States. Acquired by HBO, the spare project from first-time writer-director Daniel Sawka weds the stark feel and look of a documentary with the emotional wallop that comes from drama.
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Dec 7, 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. What it’s really about is a kid, caught in a net. ... Icebox is less agitprop than it is an exposé of apathy.
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Dec 7, 2018
Dec 26, 2018
Probably more than one person can disagree with the story and the theme that this documentary touches but the film work is direct and authentic enough to enjoy it.
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Air Date: December 7, 2018
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