I Witness Page #6

Synopsis: Jim Rhodes is a human rights worker in Tijuana for a few days to make sure that union elections are fair at a maquiladora owned by a U.S. corporation. In quick succession, the police assault the strikers, the bodies of 27 peasants turn up in an abandoned tunnel that has caved in, and two U.S. teen bikers are missing. As Rhodes pokes around and speculates on connections among these events, he's beaten up, warned off by a drug dealer's attorney, and given varying degrees of help by the U.S. State Department rep, the U.S. Trade rep, and an honest local cop. It's always about money, but whose is at stake and how cheap is Rhodes's life?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Rowdy Herrington
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
R
Year:
2003
95 min
292 Views


with other American companies to...

build an industrial community here.

Why would they jeopardize that?

Look closer. It's about money.

Everything is about money.

You know, I didn't like you

when we first met.

But there's hope for you.

I wouldn't if I were you, gringo.

You're coming with us.

Someone want to meet you.

It's just a tape recorder.

That cost sixty bucks.

Sixty is cheap, Ese.

Buy a better one next time.

Forgive me.

I didn't get my dinner.

So, you think Valdon

is a disgrace to his country...

that he should be cut

off like a cancer.

Words like that can get a man

in serious trouble.

Honestly I wish I had said it,

but for the record...

they spliced different questions

in front of my answers.

You mean that our delightful

government-controlled media...

used you to put pressure on

Mr. Valdon? You must be very angry.

I can barely control myself.

My name is Enrique Gomez, Jr.

I am an attorney.

One of my clients is very interested

in what you've been doing.

One of your clients, huh?

You represent these guys, too?

Oh no, no, no. I'm just happy

to see them off the streets.

They were vatos from the barrio of

San Diego poppin' each...

other for kicks.

Now they have a purpose.

Well that must make you feel

warm all over.

Let's get to the point,

Mr. Rhodes.

Publicity is what you are all

about, isn't it?

You like to make a lot of noise,

draw the world's attention.

If I'm lucKy.

My client doesn't like publicity.

He did not kill those campesinos.

But even if you figure that out,

you have still plastered his name...

across the headlines, and

that makes these boys very unhappy.

Tell me about the tunnel.

You don't think they're gonna

kill you, huh?

Yeah, well... if they were gonna

kill me I'd be dead already.

Tell me about the tunnel.

The tunnel was shut down two years

ago when the construction...

crew hit a water table.

That's all I can say about it.

That's not enough. Maybe the

campesinos were there to dig...

a new tunnel. There was a cave in,

and the three who survived were...

- shot to keep them quiet.

- You're not even close, Mr. Rhodes.

My client doesn't hire women

or children.

Someone used the abandoned tunnel

for a graveyard - end of story.

Ah, so you want me to take the word

of a piece of sh*t like Valdon.

Ooh... those boys don't like

the way you talk about their boss.

Well, if they kill me no one else'll

look for another answer...

and they'll hang

those murders on your client.

It wouldn't be the first time.

Bolo, take this maricon

back to his hotel.

Mr. Rhodes,

a word of advice.

If you get too close

to the truth...

the men that did this

are gonna make you dead.

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