Kevin Kline and Milla Jovovich have been in cast in Welcome to America, a film based on a New York Times Magazine cover story on sex trafficking.

Kline will play a Texan cop who finds out he may have had a daughter who was sold into prostitution many years ago. Jovovich will star as a Russian woman who is tricked into believing she has come to the U.S. to become a nanny and is instead enslaved in Mexico.

Also set to star is young Mexican actor Cesar Ramos; he will play a boy who is joined by Kline?s character on a quest to save his 13-year-old sister (Paulina Gayton).

The film is based on Girls Next Door, a story by journalist Peter Landesman.

The $12 million film will begin production in late November in Mexico City. Heading the project is filmmaker Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow), and directing is up-and-coming German Marco Kreuzpaintner (Summer Storm).






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