Skin Trade (film)
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| Directed by | Ekachai Uekrongtham |
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| Music by | Jacob Groth |
| Cinematography | Ben Nott |
| Edited by | Victor Du Bois |
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BMP Productions
SC Films Thailand Thor Pictures |
| Distributed by | Hyde Park International Magnet Releasing SC Films Thailand |
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95 minutes |
| Country | Thailand United States |
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English Thai Serbian |
| Budget | $9 million |
| Box office | $759,923 |
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| Film score (Digital audio) by Jacob Groth | |
| Released | May 26, 2015 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 34:48 |
| Label | MovieScore Media |
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Skin Trade is a 2014 action thriller film directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham. It stars Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, and Ron Perlman. Lundgren wrote the film with Gabriel Dowrick and Steven Elder, while John Hyams performed uncredited script revisions. The film centers around New Jersey police detective Nick Cassidy, as he travels to Asia intent on killing the man who murdered his family, mobster Viktor Dragovic.
Development started in 2007 after Lundgren read a news report about a group of girls being smuggled into the United States from Mexico. The girls were left in a vehicle along the border, and trapped inside, they all died of heat stroke and suffocation. Skin Trade had a $9 million production budget, and was shot over 50 days in Canada and Thailand.
The film premiered at the American Film Market on November 7, 2014. This was followed by a limited theatrical release, starting on April 9, 2015 in the United Arab Emirates, and succeeded by Thailand (on April 23), Malaysia (on April 30), and the United States (on May 8). The film grossed $384 thousand at the worldwide box office, but received mostly negative reviews; particular criticism was aimed at Jaa's fluency in English, as well as the film's approach to human trafficking.
As a prologue. a nameless Cambodian girl leaves her village for Bangkok. Upon arriving, she is kidnapped, drugged, and sold in the skin trade.
Meanwhile, as this movie starts in the city of Newark, a Newark Police Department detective named Nick Cassidy discovers that Serbian mobster Viktor Dragovic is wreaking havoc with his hitmen. Meanwhile, in Bangkok, detective Tony Vitayakul attempts to buy a Thai girl from a group of human traffickers. When his cover is blown, he takes down the traffickers and frees the girl from captivity.
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