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The Border
(1982)THE HISTORY Here's what the illegal-immigration situation looks like from the point of view of U.S.-Mexican border-patrol agents like Charlie (Jack Nicholson).
THE STRUGGLE Charlie watches as the same hopefuls try again and again to cross the Rio Grande, and as his fellow guards, led by Cat (Harvey Keitel), become embroiled in a black-market smuggling operation that's a virtual slave trade in illegal workers and babies.
WHY YOU'LL WATCH IT Nicholson stars in a rare, understated performance that may be his most overlooked, and Englishman Tony Richardson's taut direction turns this melodrama into an efficient thriller.
