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Synopsis: Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touching and emotional experience. Patrick, an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts, has been 'comfortably numb' in Cambodia for years, when he encounters Holly, a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, in the K11 red light village. The girl has been sold by her impoverished family and smuggled across the border to work as a prostitute. Holly's virginity makes her a lucrative prize, and when she is sold to a child trafficker, Patrick embarks on a frantic search through both the beautiful and sordid faces of the country, in an attempt to bring her to safety. Harsh, yet poetic, this feature forms part of the 'K-11' Project, dedicated to raising awareness of the epidemic of child trafficking and the sex slavery trade through several film projects. The film's producers endured substantial hardships in order to be able to shoot in Cambodia and
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Guy Moshe
Production: Priority Films/Slowhand Cinema Releasing
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
R
Year:
2006
114 min
Website
69 Views


see?

You got me beat.

I like.

Yeah, you like that?

I like it, too.

Hey. What did I do?

You no tough.

We tough.

Oh, yeah?

You don't look so tough.

Me no tough?

I'll kill you.

You no worry.

She kill you, I kill her.

Okay.

Hey, hey! Hey, hey!

Hey, hey! All right, all right,

all right! Knock it off!

I kill you!

- I kill you better!

Knock it off, knock it off.

All right, all right, all right.

Go on! Get out of here!

Go on! Get out of here!

All right.

All right, tiger.

All right.

Hey.

What are you doing

in here?

It's the middle

of the night.

What?

What do you mean,

buy you?

Huh?

Holly big.

Holly sister no big, okay?

Okay.

Okay.

I no want sister

come here.

I yum yum you.

You no money me, okay?

Y-you no like me?

Angkor?

Yes, Angkor.

Stole in the war,

and Freddie sell it in Bangkok

for $500 each.

Makes very good money.

Little bonus in there

for you.

Hi.

Hey.

Hey.

Uh, Holly?

Oh. Holly go.

She no here.

I give you other girl.

No, I don't want another girl.

I'm looking for Holly.

She go. She no here.

She no back.

What do you mean,

she no back?

She bad girl. Trouble.

I sell her man.

You go or I call man!

You married, Klaus?

No. Not anymore.

You got kids?

A daughter. She's 14.

You have a daughter.

Something funny?

You're an attorney,

and you have a daughter.

How can I come here?

Yeah.

They have a different

set of values here,

different morals.

We cannot understand that.

What does that mean?

It is their way.

Their family sells them,

and they go willingly...

because it takes a sacrifice,

a need to survive.

It's gone on for ages...

long before we got here.

They have a lot

of prostitutes in this region,

and who do you think

they cater to?

Tourists?

They got 5-year-olds negotiating

blowj*bs in a back alley.

You call them prostitutes?

You see the girl?

That's what I like.

I don't go

for the little ones.

Hello, baby lover.

Your girlfriend go?

You know where she went?

She go many man.

She forget you.

Come on, Klaus.

You miss Holly?

We go hotel.

I make you forget.

We go Hotel Phnom Penh,

okay?

Why you sad?

What's wrong?

You shy?

I'm no pretty like Holly.

No, you're pretty.

You're very pretty.

How do you say that

in Vietnamese?

Em dep lam.

"you are beautiful."

Em dep lam.

Holly dep lam, too.

Do you know where she is?

She go other city

with Vibal.

Vibal?

Who's Vibal?

Vibal, ohn.

Okay. Do you know

where they went?

Mm...

I think Siemrab.

What you do?

You go Siemrab?

Yeah.

Holly little girl, virgin.

You pay many money.

You buy me. A good deal.

I cook you. I clean.

You no do anything.

Holly's a little girl.

Holly can't take care

of herself.

You...

Why don't you just

run away?

No, no can.

Family no see Lan again.

Lan bad girl.

Boom boom many man.

Have no place to go.

Have to buy.

Holly same same.

Well, how much?

How much to buy Holly?

Holly?

Maybe $2,000.

Lan $500.

Maybe $400.

Well, I don't have enough money

to buy anybody.

You go Siemrab.

# I love you, girl #

# hey, sexy lady #

# hey, sexy lady #

This boat go Batdambang.

Phnom Penh?

No, Batdambang.

Where Batdambang?

Batdambang there.

Phnom Penh there.

Where Vietnam?

Phnom Penh there.

Vietnam.

I go Batdambang, okay?!

- I no money.

No money, no boat.

Please, me no good here.

Please, I go Batdambang.

No money, no boat.

I'm sorry.

You take.

I go Batdambang.

Okay. Go.

He --

he's a trafficker.

Yeah, I know.

So...

Why, you lonely

in the nights?

It's a personal thing.

There's crime,

and there's crime.

These people already have

a reservation for hell.

They care about nothing.

Your life...maybe $5.

And I will miss you.

Okay.

But you take Thom

with you.

Just in case.

You no look there.

I look where I want.

You go city?

Yes.

I come.

- No.

I go bus Phnom Penh.

Mother wait.

Oh, come on here.

Hmm?

Come on.

I go Phnom Penh.

Phnom Penh?

I go Phnom Penh!

Go home.

I want to take her back

with me.

And I have money.

She dead.

What do you mean,

she's dead?

Huh? I-I don't --

I don't understand.

What do you mean,

she's dead?

Dead. Kaput.

Understand?

Boom. No boom boom.

You know?

Wait a minute.

Wait a second.

Next time I see you,

you die.

Yeah. Yeah.

Hmm.

Hi!

Hi, hi!

Excuse me.

I deserve to be slapped

by a couple people,

but I don't think

you're one of them.

And so you know, I'm not one of

your perverts, either.

So, what were you going to do

if you found her in time?

I don't know.

I didn't get that far.

Buy her, I guess.

What did I do now?

Patrick, I don't

want to offend you.

But when you buy a girl,

you're supporting the trade.

You encourage them

to keep on going.

You become a part

of the operation.

So, what was I supposed to do,

just leave her there?

There are over 30,000

child prostitutes in Cambodia.

Uh-huh.

Let's say we're gonna buy

every single one of them.

What do you think

will happen?

I don't know.

Next year,

there will be 60,000,

And their price

will be higher.

Well, I wasn't trying to

help 60,000 girls.

I was trying to help one.

First time I came here,

I was just a volunteer.

I thought it would be cool,

you know?

Different experience.

I met Jonathan,

and I guess...

I was mesmerized by him,

so I decided to stay...

For love.

Anyhow,

after the love was gone...

I realized

I've become too involved,

too connected.

Seeing the people here,

how they're able to smile after

all they've been through...

I don't know many people who can

turn their backs on that.

What about you?

How long have you been here?

Uh...

Well,

I came to Southeast Asia...

a couple years out of school

and started working...

a bunch of different jobs.

Still here.

I see.

You're some kind of

a spec trade or something?

No, no, no, no, no.

I didn't sign up for all that.

I don't understand.

I mean, what do you do?

What do you live for?

I don't know.

What's anyone here live for?

Just trying to survive.

It was very nice

talking to you.

Come visit us sometime.

Hey.

Hey!

Where did you get that?

Yeah, yeah, that.

Where did you get that?

Girl gave me.

Hold on,

hold on, hold on.

This girl?

- Yeah, yeah!

Is this girl.

This girl?

This girl.

Boat Batdambang.

No, this --

this girl is dead.

One month ago.

See Batdambang boat,

one month.

Hey, hey.

Uh, how much?

Yeah, how much?

No, me like.

Yeah, I like it, too.

How much?

Vietnamese?

- Yeah.

Batdambang is not many.

We find her easy.

We go other?

Yeah, brothels.

I go in. Pretend.

Uh-huh.

I'll pay.

You stay in the car.

All right.

Listen, what if she's not in

one of the brothels?

You understand?

Not -- not a prostitute.

She's not a prostitute.

Then we go

to the street kids.

All right.

But...

no many Vietnamese girl.

Yeah.

Can I see?

You can follow her.

It's okay.

All right.

You wait here.

Okay.

Holly, hey.

How are you?

It's Patrick.

Short time, $5.

We go hotel, $20.

What?

No, it's me.

It's Patrick.

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