Journey to the End of the Night (film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Journey to the End of the Night

| image = Mos_y_alice_Journey_poster.jpg

| director = Eric Eason

| producer = Richard Gladstein
James Acheson
Frank Demartini

| writer = Eric Eason

| starring = Brendan Fraser
Mos Def
Alice Braga
Scott Glenn
Catalina Sandino Moreno
Matheus Nachtergaele

| music = Elia Cmiral

| cinematography = Ulrich Burtin

| editing = Kevin Greutert

| studio = Millennium Films

| distributor = First Look International

| released = {{Film date|2006|04|28|Tribeca Film Festival}}

| runtime = 98 minutes

| country = Brazil
Germany
United States

| language = Portuguese
English
Yoruba

| budget = $6.2 million[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?idjourneytotheendofthenight.htm] {{dead link|date=June 2023}}

| gross = $49,147

}}

Journey to the End of the Night is a 2006 independent crime thriller film directed by Eric Eason starring Brendan Fraser, Mos Def, Scott Glenn, Alice Braga and Catalina Sandino Moreno.

Plot

In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, Brazil, exiled Americans Sinatra and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted to cocaine. Sinatra is married to a former prostitute named Angie, with whom he has a son.

A Russian client is killed by his wife in their establishment, leaving behind a suitcase filled with drugs. On the night that they have scheduled a negotiation to sell the contents of the suitcase to African buyers, their go-between dies while having sex with a trans woman named Nazda. In desperation, Sinatra makes a deal with the Nigerian dishwasher of the brothel, Wemba, who is to travel to the harbor of Santos, taking the place of the go-between, and make the sale to the drug dealers. In return, Wemba would receive a large amount of money.

Wemba accepts but, while returning to his car in the harbor, he is attacked by two small-time thieves and knocked unconscious. His lack of contact with Sinatra and Paul starts a chain-reaction of misunderstandings that lead to a tragic end.