600 Miles

press release: In partnership with the Wisconsin Film Festival, the library is pleased to present a screening of 600 MILES. This film played to a near capacity Marquee theater audience at Union South during the 2016 Wisconsin Film Festival. It is being presented at Madison Central Library free of charge.

Tim Roth gives a characteristically riveting performance as a federal agent tracking gunrunners along the Mexican border. Teenaged Anulfo buys weapons legally in Arizona and delivers them across the border to his narco uncle, unaware that hes under surveillance by the ATF. When agent Hank Harris botches the arrest, he winds up a prisoner of his young target, bound in the back of an SUV deep in cartel territory. The danger only grows more volatile as they reach their destination. Dispensing with crime movie clichés in favor of a realist aesthetic ,600 Miles underlines hard truths about the ease with which Americas lax gun laws are circumvented. (2015|85mins) -Mike King, Wisconsin Film Festival senior programmer

This film has been rated R by the MPAA.Children under 17 must be accompanied by an adult.

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This event is funded in part through a grant from Beyond the Page, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Madison Community Foundation. For more information, visit http://www.beyondthepage.info.