Stockholm, Pennsylvania

Of anyone who has raised kids is going to hate this movie, because they are going to see themselves in it, mistreating kids.

The acting in this was extraordinary. The storyline is complete with no gaps. The actors are very believable. The situations are very believable

As I stated, where it fails is in how gritty revealing it is on how "adults" can and do fk up kid's heads, because they themselves are fked up.

Whoever put this movie together, the director and the script writer are some very very mature and rounded adults that have seen some very evil things

The other reason this movie is probably not getting accolades is that it is independent, so the hollywood wokies are going to be browbeating it, keeping it down

Cult Classic.

Found it on Tubi.

Great acting but ya lost me. Not enough information was giving about the kidnapper and so we are kind of just thrown into the story. The mother had me hella confused and I don't know what was going through her mind towards the end. THE ENDING IS STUPID!!!!! Like what the hell was the writer trying to suggest. Great acting but ya lost me. I only watched it to support my girl Saoirse Ronan. 5/10; would be lower if the acting was bad.

There are some interesting ideas in this movie sadly they were not implemented...

"Stockholm, Pennsylvania" a young woman kidnapped at 4 and kept in a basement for 18 years is reunited with the parents she doesn't remember,the child-kidnapping genre usually it focuses on the victim and the abductor and ends when the subject is found.This film had a more original spin and focused on the after math.I give the film points for originality, one usually does not see this part we only see the victim's arms wrapped around their parents and the credits start to roll. Leia is deeply attached to the mild-mannered end-of-days cultist (Jason Isaacs, in a very small role) who kidnapped her and cut her off from the outside world. But that enforced seclusion also means that at 22 she's facing the childhood challenges and embarrassments of learning how to operate in the adult world.all this sounds like a filmmaker's dream protect.

Sadly it takes a turn we put ourselves in the shoes of the mother although her intentions are good, she becomes extremely obsessive to get her daughter back to the point that her actions are not so different from the kidnapper,that's when the film loses me,it becomes unrealistic, it is an obsession to achieve her daughters love at all costs.

Strong performances from Saoirse Ronan and Cynthia Nixon, they manage to get the high points of the movie,I leaned more to Emma Donaghue's compelling 2010 novel Room, which developed far more bracing and psychologically nuanced drama out of a similar scenario of shut-ins readjusting to an unknown world.

The ending???? Come on!!!

It was ridiculously slow moving, and there was no character build up to anyone. I felt nothing for any of the characters -everything was flatlined. I was hoping towards the end there would be a little action or a nice wrap up and there was absolutely nothing. The ending offers nothing and leave you hanging the ending, which is the beginning didn't tell you anything at all. There was no background as to her situation from the time she was kidnapped until she was found so many details were missing that could've made things a lot better. The ridiculous ending again was a complete joke.

Leia (Saoirse Ronan) was abducted by stranger Benjamin McKay (Jason Isaacs) at the age of four. She lived in the basement believing the world had ended. After 17 years of isolation, she is reunited with her birth parents (Cynthia Nixon, David Warshofsky). She struggles to acclimate to them who are essentially strangers and even her real name Leanne. Her mother can't leave her by herself and is desperate to connect to her. The marriage is falling apart. Dr. Andrews (Rosalind Chao) is Leia's therapist.

Director Nikole Beckwith strips away any flash or music. The colors are washed out. It is deliberately quiet at times. It leaves the movie feeling dead for the first half. Saoirse is able to maintain interest by her sheer presence. Leia takes a turn around the midpoint. It's a big risk and it becomes bursts of overwrought awkwardness. She needs a connection outside of the situation. The obvious comparison is Room which is more cinematic and has more "life". This is trying to walk down the same path but not as scenic. The two women produce a compelling battle but I'm not sure if it's worthwhile.