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Les liens du mariage

Original title: The Abduction
  • TV Movie
  • 1996
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
135
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Victoria Principal and Robert Hays in Les liens du mariage (1996)
DramaThriller

While their marriage may have started off happily, Kate now finds that her police officer husband Paul has grown more unstable and abusive with each passing year. At long last, she leaves hi... Read allWhile their marriage may have started off happily, Kate now finds that her police officer husband Paul has grown more unstable and abusive with each passing year. At long last, she leaves him and tries to start a new life for herself. Paul, however, has become obsessed with the t... Read allWhile their marriage may have started off happily, Kate now finds that her police officer husband Paul has grown more unstable and abusive with each passing year. At long last, she leaves him and tries to start a new life for herself. Paul, however, has become obsessed with the thought of getting Kate back, and starts stalking her. Matters come to a head when he takes... Read all

  • Director
    • Larry Peerce
  • Writer
    • Marshall Goldberg
  • Stars
    • Victoria Principal
    • Robert Hays
    • Christopher Lawford
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.9/10
    135
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    • Director
      • Larry Peerce
    • Writer
      • Marshall Goldberg
    • Stars
      • Victoria Principal
      • Robert Hays
      • Christopher Lawford
    • 3User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Victoria Principal
    Victoria Principal
    • Kate Finley
    Robert Hays
    Robert Hays
    • Paul Olavsky
    Christopher Lawford
    Christopher Lawford
    • Dan Solano
    William Greenblatt
    • Mark
    Tabitha Lupien
    Tabitha Lupien
    • Becca
    Tom Melissis
    • Tim Finley
    Christopher Bondy
    • Brad Corey
    Paul Soles
    • Weisner
    Liz MacRae
    • D.A. Alexander
    Mark Polley
    Mark Polley
    • Lance
    Neil Crone
    Neil Crone
    • Mr. Williams
    Robert Bidaman
    • Emergency Doctor
    Diane Plotka
    • Anne
    Elizabeth Gould
    • Saleswoman
    Lloyd White
    • Court Clerk
    Nonnie Griffin
    Nonnie Griffin
    • Woman at Gas Station
    Tim Progosh
    Tim Progosh
    • Robert
    Graham McPherson
    • Judge Collins
    • Director
      • Larry Peerce
    • Writer
      • Marshall Goldberg
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    petershelleyau

    the attentions of Robert Hays

    Kate Findlay (Victoria Principal) is a Boston college assistant who is stalked by her ex-husband Paul Olavsky (Robert Hays). Kate's marriage to Paul began to deteriorate when he injured his back as a policeman and was pensioned off the service. Unwilling to work again he projected all his frustrations onto Kate, before she was driven to a divorce.

    As a woman who is `half Sicilian' Principal has black hair which she wears in a short bob and longer for flashbacks to her marriage. Playing a mother is unusual for Principal, and here she is uniformly excellent, particularly with the panting fear she uses in a hospital scene after Paul has raped her. In spite of the sombreness of the material, she also scores a laugh when a judge orders Paul have a psychiatric evaluation - `What's to evaluate? He's stalking me day and night!'

    The teleplay by Marshall Goldberg, based on a true story, uses flashbacks through most of the narrative, building consecutively as Kate remembers, so we can see Paul's progressive abuse. As an ex-cop, Kate believes the police are stalling on having Paul arrested, in spite of him violating a protection order sworn against him. Kate's new live-in boyfriend Dan (Christopher Lawford) is also subject to Paul's attention, with harassment and a violent encounter before the titular act against Kate.

    Director Larry Peerce presents Hays in a change of image role, so that he is lit unflatteringly, and the bland congeniality has subtext. Despite some bad rear projection when Kate and Paul are in a car, Peerce relies upon Principal's reactions to keep the narrative moving, and has an effective edit from a memory of Kate being cold in her house because Paul has turned down the heat to save money, to Kate freezing in the snow where she has run to escape Paul.
    Dethcharm

    "Don't Start With That Therapist Crap Again!"...

    Poor Kate. Her life with her two kids and new boyfriend would be absolutely perfect if it weren't for her ruthless, psychopathic ex-husband Paul (Robert Hays). Paul's been stalking Kate ever since their bitter divorce two years earlier. He's been using his history of being a cop to skirt the law.

    Now, his efforts are increasingly intense and violent. Soon enough the movie's title comes into play.

    THE ABDUCTION is a decent made-for-TV thriller. Ms. Principal is stellar, especially when she turns the tables on old Paul! Hays is fairly convincing as the maniacal stalker. The emergence of his dark side is shown through flashbacks of the early days of the marriage. He becomes more dangerous and surprisingly whiney, making us want to ring his neck!

    Mostly for the legions of Victoria fans...

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      Based on the true story of the case of Michael Kropowensky kidnapping ex-wife Susan Foster.

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    • Release date
      • July 7, 1996 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Canada
    • Official site
      • Vidio (Indonesia)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Abduction
    • Filming locations
      • Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Benjamin Productions
      • Hearst Entertainment Productions
      • Power Pictures
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 40m(100 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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