Bordertown (DVD, 2008)

Jennifer Lopez reunites with SELENA director Gregory Nava for this socially conscious thriller based on real-life events. Lopez (EL CANTANTE) plays Lauren Fredericks an American journalist who investigates the deaths of women in the Mexican town of Juarez. These women work in factories owned by American businesses but their murders are hidden by the authorities in the town. When Lauren meets a survivor named Eva she reunites with old friend Diaz Alfonso (Antonio Banderas) in an effort to keep the woman safe and tell her story to the world. Martin Sheen (THE WEST WING) costars as Lauren's boss the editor of the Chicago Sentinel. Like BABEL and TRADE this timely drama exposes the dark nature of life on both sides of the Mexican-American border.