Lock your kids up, this film is about the terrifying act of Child Abduction!!!
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INCENDIES was easily my favorite film from 2010 (review), and a best foreign film nominee for the Oscsars. So when I heard director Denis Villeneuve was making a new movie, PRISONERS, shot by Roger Deakins, with Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo and Paul Dano, I just put it on my *must see* list without learning any more about it. It would be fair to say my hopes about the film were through the roof. Well, this team not only met, but exceeded my sky-high expectations.
The subject matter here is the nuclear option of drama -- child abduction. Few subjects have such potential to move audiences, and yet are nearly impossible to pull off without coming across as a ham-fisted cliche. There is so much potential for manipulation that it seems far easier to screw it up (badly), than it is to get it right. But PRISONERS never feels exploitative. In some ways, the child abduction is a MacGuffin for exploring the darkest recesses of the human psyche. But it is more than that -- it is also an engine driving a twisting, yet taut suspense thriller.
It won't hurt to read some of the early details of the plot, because it folds upon itself in so many ways that you can't predict the ending from the first few minutes. The Dover family (Hugh Jackman, Maria Bello, and kids) are having Thanksgiving dinner at the Birch's place (Viola Davis and Terrence Howard and kids). But when the
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