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The outrageous practice of trokosi is hardly given the dramatic treatment it deserves.

The outrageous and under-reported practice of trokosi, a religion-based form of justice-by-slavery still practiced in Ghana and other West African nations, is hardly given the dramatic treatment it deserves in the woefully conceived (and titled) “Punctured Hope: A Story About Trokosi and Young Girls’ Slavery in Today’s West Africa.” Casting actual trokosi victim Belinda Siamey as a girl punished for the supposed crimes of her male relative, director/co-writer Bruno Pischiutta flubs the opportunity to insert nonfiction into a drama.

All-English dialogue track isn’t enough to raise commercial prospects for a film brought down by lumbering pacing and rampant overacting.

Younger progressive locals such as Amegatshe (Ruffy Samuel Quansah) can’t budge