Sold

2016
6.8| 1h37m| en
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Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. When the Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's father says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution...

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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks
Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.
Ayub Khan Am a student in Edison High school Located in Minneapolis Minnesota, USA am still learning this book and this book made me feel back in home. when i was in Somalia, People in Africa don't really know the value of girl in home, Like In Africa most girls are been married the age of 14 to 17. Just look is a girl of 16 years of age mentally and physically strong. The answer is no. But still many people are still doing. It is really bad to give a young girl and old man just because he have money. So i wanna beg all the people who are reading this article that a girl should be given as high respect and authority a man is been given.
waqjs This is happening for decades, I wouldn't call it here as human/child trafficking but child abuse. Most of the locals are shown abusing those children, however, flights are going filled with foreigners to this country to enjoy their sick/evil minded desires, otherwise what's there really worth watching what you don't have in other parts of the world. Thanks to the daring Director and Producer to bring it up to the general public. As well as the local actors, who could be receiving threats from the nationalist parties' workers. What surprises me that local Police is fully involved and helping them and that's how the crime sustain. Also, their corrupt politicians who know everything but showing total different face of their society in order to gain power over the world with that local conditions and how would they make it better for millions of kids abused on daily basis I don't know. Calcutta is just a small piece in this puzzle. I have read some reviews from US that its happening there too, kindly do not compare it with any country may be with other Far Eastern poor nations but this is really ugly. Because if Police finds out in US something like this they wouldn't give long dates for raid, they will put all the efforts to stop it and prevent it from happening.
meg-18403 Child trafficking happens all over the world--even in my backyard, Sonoma County--as I learned during one of the preview discussions after Sold. We live in a world where the vulnerable are taken advantage of ("Oh, your daughter will have a good job in the city"), and believe what they are told despite evidence to the contrary (elections). Sold helps us touch our compassion and caring with its specificity and hope. The film takes a difficult subject and makes it accessible without beating us over the head as a documentary might. It's also visually beautiful as it opens the edgy worlds of sex-for-money and trafficking in India and Nepal.Highly recommended!
blackmancathy I loved this movie! It is an eye opening story of human trafficking told about one girl whom is sold into slavery but brings to light the prevalence of this tragedy in India and throughout the world.Some of the scenes are tough to see but are realistic to what these children and women go through in reality. You could not make such a great movie about such a tough subject without showing some of the horrors that these women and children go through. It is filmed in India and Nepal with fantastic location shots. There are some very heart warming scenes that remind you these are just children.After seeing this film you will want to get involved in some way to stop human trafficking. This is a must see movie! Don't miss this eyeopening film!