Apple Magazine - USA - Issue 535 (2022-01-28)

Rotten Tomatoes

11 %

by Jesse Harris
Genre: Action & Adventure
Released: 2022
Price: $12.99

Borrego

While on a research mission in the

Borrego desert, young botanist Elly

(Lucy Hale) witnesses the crash of a

plane piloted by drug mule Tomas

(Leynar Gomez) – who, after finding her,

takes her hostage and forces her on a

dangerous journey towards a remote

drop-off point.

FIVE FACTS:

1. Other members of the acting cast include
   Nicholas Gonzalez as local sherif Jose,
   and Jorge A. Jimenez as Guillermo, who
   participates locally in the drug supply chain.


2. Hale and Gonzalez both previously
   appeared in the teen drama TV series Pretty
   Little Liars.


3. The ilm was inspired by one of director
   Jesse Harris’s childhood trips to California’s
   Anza-Borrego Desert.


4. “I wanted to do this ilm because it was
   unlike any project I’ve been a part of,” Hale
   revealed while promoting Borrego.


5. RogerEbert.com critic Sheila O’Malley
   described Borrego as “an awkward thriller
   pasted onto a moody strangers-forging-
   a-connection drama”.