Description

Icebox 2018
1h 28min | Drama | 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

A young boy becomes trapped inside America’s rigid immigration process. (Feature adaptation of the 2016 short film, “Icebox.”)

User review:

Movies don’t get any more timely than Sawka’s first feature, which follows 12-year-old Oscar (Anthony Gonzalez) as he journeys from Honduras to the U.S. in search of asylum, only to land in an ICE detention facility for minors, where he’s just one face among thousands in an indifferent, overburdened immigration system.

Gonzalez – who voiced the lead in Pixar’s Coco – is utterly convincing as the scared, confused young hero, and his performance carries the film over some of its more dramatically contrived moments.

James L. Brooks’s Gracie Films helped Sawka develop the project from a 2016 short, and this version definitely feels more calculated. But its heart, like its anger, is in the right place.

Director: Daniel Sawka
Writer: Daniel Sawka
Stars: Genesis Rodriguez, Anthony Gonzalez, Sarah Minnich
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 2018 (USA)
Filming Locations: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA