While Binoche is still a wonderful, affecting actress, hence my surprise to see her here, the recent downturn by Freeman defies understanding. Beyond that didactic intent, Gerick and Sterling serve very little purpose as they trace the country in Gerick’s station wagon looking for Sally and Leila. Through their dedicated eyes, Gutto interrogates the heinous punishment subjected on women by trafficking and the various, unfathomable ways the police perpetuate these crimes through inaction. To combat that reality, she teams a retired grump in Agent Gerick ( Morgan Freeman) with a fresh, naive upstart Sterling ( Cameron Monaghan) as two cops who do care. Traffickers get away with selling young women because the authorities simply do not care. Gutto wants this movie to serve as an indictment of a system. "Paradise Highway" falls in the latter category. What’s difficult to stomach is when a film falters despite a director’s best objectives. Sometimes a movie fails because the director carries the worst intentions. Sally’s plans go awry when Leila murders a man at the drop-off location, sending the pair on the run to figure out how to remedy the situation before darker underworld forces find them. Sally agrees, but gets more than she bargains for when she meets the two smugglers-Claire ( Christiane Seidel) and Terrence ( Walker Babington)-only to discover the package is a young girl, Leila ( Hala Finley), condemned to a sex trafficking ring. They demand his sister pickup and transport a package across state lines. Though he’s nearing parole, a few unknown factions within the prison thrash him. Sally worries deeply about her troubled brother Dennis ( Frank Grillo). As Sally, a big-rig trucker traversing America’s south, a miscast Binoche occupies our primary focus.
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