- Overview
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.
- Release Date
29 March 2019
- DirectingLuke Lorentzen
- Budget
$0.00
- Revenue
$0.00
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23 June 2021
Thanks to Lorentzen's unobtrusive embedded presence within the ambulance, capturing a series of harrowing real-life vignettes, 'Midnight Family' reflects the present difficulties of blue-collar work and asks some alarming questions about the future of private healthcare. Try watching it at night, when you're too tired to do anything, but have just enough energy not to fall asleep. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-midnight-family-life-death-and-private-healthcare-in-mexico-city
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