Jade Herrera Movies

The writing and directing debut of brothers Kelly and Tyler Requa, The Flats is a coming-of-age comedy drama set in the rural Northwest by Puget Sound. In the last days of summer, charismatic Harper (Chad Lindberg) spends most of his time partying and hanging out with his best friend, law student Luke (Sean Christensen). During one of his many drunken stunts, Harper gets arrested for vandalism and must decide whether to serve his sentence or escape. In his week left of freedom, he drinks away his time with a circle of joking friends, including Tully (Luc Reynaud), Kate (Cristen Coppen), and Mark (Danny Pickering). Eventually, Harper meets Luke's girlfriend Paige (Jade Herrera) and a romance follows that may cause a conflict between the two friends. Originally shot on Super 16 mm, The Flats features a folk-rock score composed by star Christensen. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Hank Kirk (Kevin Anderson) is a Caucasian man who objects to his half-Cherokee son Hunter's (James Duval) tendency to believe the stories of his Native American grandfather. Hunter is a hemophiliac, which makes it difficult (and dangerous) for him to take part in the same outdoor activities that dominate his father's life, especially as his mother, Maggie (Jeri Arredondo), worries about her son and tries to keep him away from danger. As Hunter grows older, he feels the need to prove himself to his father despite his medical condition, but his father objects to the Cherokee method of hunting and insists that the boy hunt like a white man, by sitting by the side of the road with a gun and waiting for game to appear. When Hunter goes deer hunting with Hank for the first time, he mistakenly bags a doe instead of a buck -- a tremendous embarrassment for both Hunter and Hank, because the animal has no antlers to show off and thus is not considered a great catch. Humiliated, Hunter seeks the advice of his grandfather, Marvin Fishinghawk (Gordon Tootoosis), and finds love for the first time with a girl his age. The Doe Boy was the first feature film from writer and director Randy Redroad, which was based on his own experiences growing up in a Native American family; the film was shown in competition at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A 15-year-old teen looking to escape civil strife in El Salvador finds her troubles have only begun upon arriving in Los Angeles in director Nate Thomas' grim drama. Alicia Montalvo (Jade Herrera) has just arrived in the U.S. in search of a better life, but soon after arriving at the home of her crack-addicted aunt and her younger brother, the sweatshop where she has found work is raided by the INS. When child welfare services notice the bruises Alicia received from her aunt after returning home from work with no money, they place her in foster care where she is separated from her sibling and falls prey to a sexual predator. Now pregnant and placed into a home for expectant teens, Alicia's spirit is still not broken and her determination is stronger than ever. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

When Maggie Yearwood (Ann-Margret) threw her cheating husband out of the house, her son Peter (Corbin Allred) became so distraught that he attempted to kill himself--and after emerging from a coma, Peter had totally lost his hearing. Now enrolled in the Riverwall School for the Deaf in Arizona, Peter is a surly, resentful loner, as angry at his mother as he is at his current lot in life. Hoping to mend fences with Peter, Maggie pulls up stakes and moves to the town of Blue Dog, some 25 miles from Riverwall. Here she meets an enigmatic rodeo cowboy who calls himself Owen Wister (Kris Kristofferson)--and who has more than his own share of emotional baggage. How the fates of Maggie, Peter and Owen are interwined provides the dramatic substance of the made-for-TV Blue Rodeo, which was based on a novel by Jo-Ann Mapson and which originally aired October 20, 1996 on CBS. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi