your thinking is akin to asking this question: For a police force, is it more important for them to
solve kidnapping cases when we have 100 theft cases and 25 domestic abuse cases?
Not exact matches
The old rivalries resurface and intensify when he shows up and usurps game night, inviting all couples (Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury) to his swanky showcase home, introducing his own one - percenter's version of a parlor game — he's hired a company that specializes in staging fake crimes (in this
case a
kidnapping) and the guests are tasked with
solving the crime.
Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is
kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to
solve the
case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.
As she professionally, unhurriedly
solves one of cinema's most open - and - shut
cases (Macy's Jerry Lundegaard commissions two hired hitmen to
kidnap his wife and hopes the crime will pry some money out of his boss / father - in - law's wallet, and is horrified when everything unravels after a routine pullover), she also waddles through a series of seeming non sequiturs, all of which accentuate the relationship between outstate Minnesota and the Twin Cities, between behavior and intuition, between considered silence and chatty idiocy, between «Mack - Donalds» and Crockpot - simmered «sup - purr.»
With the help of a young amateur investigator whose website, Midwest Mysteries, is devoted to
solving local cold
cases, Arden tracks down the man who was the prime suspect in the
kidnapping, though he was never convicted of the crime.