Harsh Times movie

A tough-minded drama about two friends in South Central Los Angeles and the violence that comes between them.

Harsh Times is an American 2006 crime film set in South Los Angeles. Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, and Eva Longoria star in the film, which is directed and written by David Ayer, who wrote the Academy Award-winning Training Day, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Pictures and Bauer Martinez Entertainment. Ayer says that the films characters are greatly based on the people he knew when he lived in South Central.SynopsisJim Davis (Christian Bale) is an ex-Army Ranger recently honorably discharged from the military, yet still haunted by nightmares of his former occupation. After being denied a position in the Los Angeles Police Department which will allow him to marry his Mexican girlfriend and bring her to the USA, Jim spends his time hanging out with his best friend, Mike Alonzo (Freddy Rodriguez).

Mike is feeling pressure from his longtime girlfriend, Sylvia (Eva Longoria) to either get a job or get out. But romantic relationships dont compare to the bond of friendship between Jim and Mike, and they are soon cruising the streets of South Los Angeles, returning to a deceitful life of crime, drugs, and violence..

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Harsh Times Cast

• Adriana Millan
• Armando Cantina
• César García Gómez
• Chaka Forman
• Eva Longoria
• Freddy Rodríguez
• Kenneth Choi
• Michael Monks
• Noel Gugliemi
• Robert Dahey
• Samantha Esteban
• Sonia Iris Lozada
• Tammy Trull
• Terry Crews