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The following plot summary is in chronological order, thus does not reflect the exact sequence of the events as seen on screen. The story starts some time during the mid-1990s in a small town near Las Cruces, New Mexico (close to the border with Mexico), where Gina, a wife and mother to four children, is introduced.
Screenplay. A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them.
In Mexico, a young motherless girl, Maria (Tessa Ia), lives happily with her father and his best friend until a tragic accident changes it all. In the New Mexico border town of Las Cruces, two teenagers, Mariana (Jennifer Lawrence) and Santiago (JD Pardo), find love in the aftermath of their parents’ sudden deaths.
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- Danny Pino
- Guillermo Arriaga
Back in New Mexico, the grown Santiago ( Danny Pino ), now with a 12-year-old daughter, Maria (Tessa Ia), is working as a crop duster with his pal, the selfsame Carlos; Gina and Nick, sneaking...
In the past a young girl named Mariana (Jennifer Lawrence) tries to figure out why her mother (Kim Basinger) began an affair as she enters into a relationship with the son of her mother's lover....
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- Guillermo Arriaga
- R
- Charlize Theron
Gina’s teenage daughter, Mariana (Jennifer Lawrence), and Nick’s adolescent son, Santiago (J.D. Pardo), start their own doomed Romeo-and-Juliet romance, sealed by burning their flesh. Meanwhile, in Mexico, 12-year-old Maria (Tessa Ia) watches her father’s crop-duster crash into a field of sorghum; later, she’ll show the scar on her ...
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May 27, 2016 · In true Arriaga fashion, the opening of The Burning Plain introduces us to four stories on a collision course to becoming one. On one front, there’s Sylvia ( Charlize Theron ) and Maria (Tessa...
