Texas cop Ray Sheridan (Kevin Kline) makes an unusual alliance with 17-year-old Jorge (Cesar Ramos), a Mexican lad who illegally enters the U.S. in pursuit of sex traffickers who have kidnapped his 13-year-old sister (Paulina Gaitan). Exceptionally well done in every respect, Trade doesn’t pull any punches, and fairly graphic scenes involving forced sex and drug use might be unsettling to some viewers. Kline is extremely convincing in what is for him an unusual characterization.

Shelf Talk: Trade bears more than a slight resemblance, in both tone and content, to Human Trafficking, an excellent movie that we reviewed some months ago. Similarly harrowing, Trade will find favor with a mature audience capable of digesting the grim themes presented therein, but you might want to warn potential viewers about the subject matter’s hard-edged treatment.