ÚLTIMA PARADA 174 (Last Stop 174) (Brazilian)
The Story:
Brazil. When Marisa (Chris Vianna) is unable to pay a debt, her baby, Alessandro, is taken away from her by a drug dealer. After cleaning up her act, she becomes determined to find her child.
On the outskirts of Rio, another boy, Sandro, finds his mother stabbed to death in her shop. He runs away, intent on reaching Copacabana, where his mother once promised to take him. Once there, Sandro befriends some street kids who sweep him up into a world of drug use and dealing.
After becoming a hardened survivor of the Candelaria massacre (an attempt by Rio police to clean up the city by murdering street kids as they slept), he eventually finds himself in a juvenile detention home.
It is there that Sandro (Michel Gomes) he meets Marisa's long-lost boy, Alessandro. Marisa meanwhile finds her way to the center, and mistakes Sandro for her own son. Despite her efforts to help him, Sandro cannot escape his hard reality, but Sandro's scars run deeper than Marisa could ever imagine, so deep that he believes his only hope for survival is taking a busload of hostages.
Starring:
Michel Gomes, Gabriela Luiz, Marcello Melo Jr., Chris Vianna.
Directed By:
Bruno Barreto.
Release:
Release:
2008
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