Illegal Tender (2007)

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Universal

Rating: R

Release Date: Aug 24, 2007

Running Time: 107 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Tego Calderon, Rick Gonzalez, Wanda De Jesús, Zoe Saldana, Delilah Cotto, Evan Hart, Manny Perez, Zulay Henao

director: Franc Reyes

Illegal Tender

A Latino college student Wilson Jr. and his courageous mother Millie De Leon flee from the thugs that killed his father. After years of uncertainty about the true meaning behind their life on the run, Wilson Jr. and his love, Ana, find themselves in life-threatening danger. Wilson Jr. must return to Puerto Rico to unveil the dark secrets from his family's past.

The family that slays together stays together is the rather dubious moral of this glossy but empty-headed thriller from Empire builder Franc Reyes.

Story

What do you get when a small-time crook gets whacked at the exact same time his baby boy's born? Yes, yet another crime story that's driven by a quest for vengeance. A straight-A student living in a swanky Connecticut suburb, Wilson De Leon, Jr. (Rick Gonzalez) knows nothing about his late father. Nor, for that fact, does he ever wonder why his…