guil fisher For certainly the leading lady doesn't. I found myself rooting for the villain. For certainly Michael Hogan gave an outstanding performance. He had me glued to every move and line he uttered. With a sensitive face and distinguished looks he was wonderful. Emma Caulfield was just awful. Hard faced, overly made up (check a close up of her heavy mascara eyes) in every scene wearing skin tight jeans and tee shirts (she has grown up daughter) and her too long straight bleached stringy hair covering her face most of the time. She was downright obnoxious in this film and I was praying someone would get rid of her. Why do all these actresses and female news people have the same look? Bleached hair, too long, straight as though they just woke up and needed to brush their hair. It's a terrible look and it's passing it on to all our younger women to copy. I can count every other female on the street looking the same and talking on a cell phone. The all American woman. Anyway, I couldn't stand Caulfield's look and acting. David James Elliott fared better and could have been better had he had a decent leading lady. Melanie Papolia as the daughter seemed more mature than her mother. Erica Carroll didn't have much to do, but it was a pleasure to watch this lady on screen.Get rid of Caulfield. Please LMN, no more of her.

GirlsJustWannaHaveLunch I remember being horrified hearing about the Austrian version of this story and asking myself how could the father have gotten away with it so long. Then they discovered that other girl living confined with children in a gated backyard compound. So this was definitely an interesting take on those stories (unless there's another story I don't know about). What I find disturbing about this is not that only COULD it happen, but it DID happen. Michael Hogan puts in a really solid performance as the Captor and Emma Caulfield doesn't take the part too over the top. DJE acts as a nice solid anchor to the madness.The song (was it Wagner?) became a little more haunting after each time it was played and I LOVED the final scenes with Hogan's wife and Emma, seeing the regret and sadness of such a shocking crime and life of an innocent girl stolen from her.

dancinqueen47 I rarely write reviews, but in the case of this stinker, a strong warning is appropriate. Obviously, the person (people?) who wrote this ridiculously implausible story is/are none too bright. Unfortunately, whoever thought this up was clearly operating under the assumption that the rest of us possess similar grape-sized brains. Without giving too much away, for those of you who are just curious about how bad a movie can be, suffice it to say that the situations the female lead (the wife) deliberately creates are as unbelievable and stupid as anything I've ever seen. In addition, she was written as an incredibly stupid, demanding witch (spell that with a capital B). We get maybe 10 minutes out of the entire movie seeing this character act in a somewhat normal fashion. The best friend was portrayed as being as stupid and reckless as the wife. This character also lacked business integrity. Casting is also to blame for the ridiculous implausibility. Watching the wife interact with her husband, you have to think, "The only kind of man who would continue to put up with this woman's stupidity and unpleasantness would have to be so ugly and dull, he'd feel fortunate to have any woman and wouldn't dare rock the boat in any way!" Yet, they chose to cast a very attractive actor in this roleThe only reason I didn't give this a 1 is that the acting wasn't completely awful. Certainly not even near as bad as the writing. If you want to waste 2 hours, there are more entertaining and pleasant ways to do it!

aboutagirly Good not great. Seen better and seen worse. But the pace was pretty decent so it keeps you tuned in. Some good action sequences and decent suspense. It's pretty much what I look for in a Lifetime movie. No Emmy here, but you're probably not expecting that from this network.Was hoping it would stick a little closer to the true story but I guess there's only so much you can show on television. Liked the performances all around, which were above par for the course.David James Elliott should be working more. Looking forward to his Hallmark movie.Good: Acting Dialogue Sound ScoreNot so Good: Some of the casting