Inhale
From director Baltasar Kormakur (JAR CITY), INHALE is a riveting thriller about a father ready to go to any lengths to save the life of his daughter. Dermot Mulroney (MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING) stars as Paul Stanton, a District Attorney who, with the help of his wife (Diane Kruger, INGLORIOUS BASTERDS), is trying desperately to find a transplant donor for his young daughter, Chloe. Diagnosed with a rare degenerative condition, Chloe is in mortal need of a lung transplant, and when her health worsens Paul becomes determined to do anything to save her. A frantic search leads the couple to a doctor in Mexico, who after promising a cure, is revealed to have connections runing deep into a criminal underworld where his patients aren't donors - they're victims.
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Filmed in a semi-documentary style, it fitfully aspires to moral seriousness.
Stephen Holden, New York Times, 10.21.2010 -
Walter Doty III and John Clafin's hackneyed script depicts Mexico as one vast, interconnected conspiracy engaged in the underground organ trade, whose highest-ranked traffickers are -- gasp! -- Americans.
Ronnie Scheib, Variety, 10.21.2010 -
It takes a while to get there, but Inhale eventually emerges as a tense and morally complex thriller with a devastating twist.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 10.21.2010 -
Ripped from the headlines and sensationalized for your would-be pleasure, Inhale uses the appalling phenomenon of illegal organ trafficking as the basis for an almost-as-appalling hyperventilated thriller.
Eric Hynes, Village Voice, 10.21.2010