Midnight Family

Midnight Family

2019 · 81 min · ES · 7.0 (72 votes)
Dir. Luke Lorentzen
Documentary

In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a for-profit ambulance, competing with other unlicensed EMTs for patients in need of urgent care. In this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care.

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A raw, unflinching look at the chaotic, life-or-death hustle of Mexico City's private ambulance crews. It's a tense, urgent ride-along that exposes the desperate measures people take to survive in a broken system, blurring the lines between saving lives and making a living.

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