• Trending
    • Certified Fresh & Verified Hot
    • TV Premier dates
    • New horror Movies
    • Best Movies of All Time
  • Movies
    • Movies In Theaters
    • Movies at Home
  • TV Shows
    • New TV
    • Most Popular TV
  • News
    • What to Watch
    • Guides
    • RT News
    • Awards
  • Games
    • Find Your Next Horror Watch
  • Video
  • Showtimes
  • Fanstore
  • About Rotten Tomatoes
  • Critics
  • Download the App Now
  • Logout
Rotten Tomatoes
Suggestions will appear as you start typing. Submit search Movies Tv shows RT App New News Showtimes

The Debt

Play trailer Poster for The Debt 2016,  1h 39m,  Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 44% 9 Reviews Tomatometer 48% 100+ Ratings Popcornmeter
44% Tomatometer 9 Reviews 48% Popcornmeter 100+ Ratings
An American businessman is torn between helping a poverty-stricken Peruvian boy and helping his company's CEO secure more land.

Critics Reviews

View More
Brad Wheeler Globe and Mail Jul 8, 2016
2/4
Well-meaning but contrived ... Go to Full Review
Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times Jul 7, 2016
Toggling between the breathtaking Peruvian highlands and the busy clamor of Lima, "The Debt" places three very different lives on a collision course freighted with moral and financial complexity. Go to Full Review
Linda Barnard Toronto Star Jul 7, 2016
2.5/4
Barney Elliott's The Debt deals in murky ethics and exploitation in this well-acted trio of connecting stories set in Peru. Go to Full Review
James Berardinelli ReelViews Sep 9, 2018
2/4
With a tortured structure, uneven pacing, and the specter of the oft-reviled "white savior," The Debt's narrative never rises to the level of its thesis about economic exploitation. Go to Full Review
Chris Knight National Post Jul 8, 2016
1.5/4
The result is well meaning, well shot (especially the rural scenes) and well acted (you can't go wrong with David Strathairn), but ultimately a dramatic disappointment. Go to Full Review
Norman Wilner NOW Toronto Jul 6, 2016
2/5
[Director] Elliott clearly cares about the exploitation of Latin American resources by rapacious foreign corporations, but his characters are one-dimensional mouthpieces for whatever point he wants to make in a given scene. Go to Full Review
Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View More
Rey P Jul 24, 2018 Very good and underrated. One of the best movies in the 2000's. Excellent actors, superb story and great pace.
Hermione P Dec 24, 2017 Excellent story line, movie is for patient audience , not an action type. But a movie with a meaning,
Read all reviews
The Debt

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING

Cast & Crew

View All

Barney Elliott

Director

Stephen Dorff

Oliver Campbell

Elsa Olivero

María Ruiz

Amiel Cayo

Florentino Gamarra

Marco Antonio Ramírez

Diego Gamarra

David Strathairn

Nathan

More Like This

View All
Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal 31% Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal Watchlist The Wrong Child 14% The Wrong Child Watchlist I'll Follow You Down 33% 38% I'll Follow You Down Watchlist Dam999 29% Dam999 Watchlist The Great War 17% 33% The Great War Watchlist TRAILER for The Great War Discover more movies and TV shows. View More

Related Movie News

View All
View All

The Debt

The Debt (2015) The Debt (2015) View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis An American businessman is torn between helping a poverty-stricken Peruvian boy and helping his company's CEO secure more land.
Director
Barney Elliott
Producer
Ibón Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé, Darren Goldberg, Chris Marsh
Screenwriter
Barney Elliott
Distributor
Level 33 Entertainment
Production Co
Arcadia Motion Pictures, Viracocha Films, Atlantic Pictures
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 24, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 8, 2017
Runtime
1h 39m
Join The Newsletter Join The Newsletter Cookie Settings