Sentences with phrase «young kidnap victims»

But it took him 10 years to write the first draft of his sobering script, this after speaking with parents and counselors of young kidnap victims, and with police officers assigned to the child sex crimes unit.

Not exact matches

What lifts it above movie - of - the - week status is Lenny Abrahamson's sensitive direction, eliciting powerful performances from Brie Larson as a kidnapping victim who's been held in a garden shed for seven years and Jacob Tremblay as her 5 - year - old son, whose young mind can't even conceive of a world outside «Room.»

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.

Taking the perspective of a young male employee of a sex trafficking ring, and sketching his moral crisis when he falls for one of its kidnapped teenage victims, it's a film that suffuses unremittingly ugly subject matter with sensory clarity.

Several years later, four psychopaths — good - looking Jackson (Sam Strike), wired - to - the - gills Ike (James Bloor), psychotic burn victim Clarice (Jessica Madsen) and lumbering, mentally impaired Bud (Sam Coleman)-- escape from the asylum, kidnapping a young nurse (Vanessa Grasse) and leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.

The central premise — a young woman reappears, claiming to be the victim of a long - ago kidnapping — should probably have given me a clue.

Also younger artists (nearly everyone is) like Rafael Lezano Hemmer, particularly the work he is doing now in using facial recognition to locate kidnapped victims, Amy Siegal's Providence, Janet Biggs, Annika Yi, Nonny de la Pena, Tania Bruguera, Ricardo Dominguez, and many many more.