The Captive
When hope is all you have.
When hope is all you have.
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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2014
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Eight years after their daughter Cassandra's abduction tore them apart, an estranged couple discover disturbing clues that indicate that she is still alive.
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Details
Runtime:
112 min
Release date:
5 Sep 2014
Country:
CA
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$1,075,178
Awards:
1 win & 9 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
For all its problems, The Captive does try to hit the themes that have obsessed Egoyan for three decades: desire, death, memory, and time.
– Tirdad Derakhshani,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
19 Dec 2014
rotten:
Becomes baroque and ludicrous as the Hitchcockian scenario loses its psychological bearings in a web of trashy plot twists and self-conscious jumps in time.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Dec 2014
rotten:
The infuriatingly vague and downright strange story banishes the haunting delicacy of mood that Mr. Egoyan has conjured so successfully in the past.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
11 Dec 2014
rotten:
The structural gamesmanship is just a smokescreen, a way to obfuscate the pulp nature of what is, ultimately, little more than a glorified, low-aiming potboiler.
– A.A. Dowd,
AV Club,
11 Dec 2014
rotten:
Surely an Oscar-nominated filmmaker like Atom Egoyan ("The Sweet Hereafter") can do better than this nasty and unconvincing thriller.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
10 Dec 2014