
In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, there are 53,000 refugees living in sub-human conditions since 1979 with the Soviet Union invasion and 2001 with the USA bombing and invasion of Afghanistan. The family of the Afghan Enayat and his cousin Jamal decides to send them illegally to London to have a better life. They hire coyotes to smuggle the cousins through Iran and Turkey to Italy and finally London hidden inside t... (Full plot summary below)
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In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, there are 53,000 refugees living in sub-human conditions since 1979 with the Soviet Union invasion and 2001 with the USA bombing and invasion of Afghanistan. The family of the Afghan Enayat and his cousin Jamal decides to send them illegally to London to have a better life. They hire coyotes to smuggle the cousins through Iran and Turkey to Italy and finally London hidden inside trucks and containers. However, the long journey locked in a container with other families poses a terrible challenge to the boys.
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| Chicago TribuneAllison BenediktThis is an amazing movie, released at a frightening time and made under remarkable circumstances. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonWinterbottom was set on bare-bones realism, and so the scalding lyricism of ferocious terrain and sociopolitical absurdity seen in, say, "Kandahar" or "A Time for Drunken Horses," is never resourced. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanYour heart will go out to [the characters], especially if your family made an arduous effort to reach America among the waves of immigrants over the last 130 years. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonAlthough fictionalized, it feels depressingly real. It's a 90-minute newsreel with a broken heart. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA startling, faux-documentary recreation of the journey of two Afghans smuggled from Peshawar to London. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrA tremendous human drama, with each stage of its characters' journey a white-knuckle thriller in miniature. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordI had to keep reminding myself, during the course of "In This World," that I was watching a fictional film, not a chronicle of real events. |
| Washington PostStephen HunterIt's of an odd genre: a formally scripted (by Tony Grisoni) feature with a musical score that adheres totally to journalistic accuracy and willfully ignores formula, melodrama and uplift. It's a real down-lift. |
| Nitrate OnlineElias SavadaA suffocating, bewildering journey that leaves you gasping for the comfort of your easy chair... |
| PopMattersElbert VenturaThe film fits neatly into Winterbottom's eclectic canon. |