High-school teacher Mary Stauffer and her 8-year old daughter Beth are held captive for 53 days by an obsessed former student. Based on a true story.High-school teacher Mary Stauffer and her 8-year old daughter Beth are held captive for 53 days by an obsessed former student. Based on a true story.High-school teacher Mary Stauffer and her 8-year old daughter Beth are held captive for 53 days by an obsessed former student. Based on a true story.
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Unfortunately even with the factual evidence of the sequence of true events well documented Alyson Hannigan's performance would have you believe that her abduction and continued rape, night after night was a ho hum event. Maybe because Lifetime is a cookie cutter process, with limited costs and time to write a script, select the actors, tape the film and bring it to the small screen, they deliberately have a formula that does not provide sufficient time, costs and cast to warrant any consideration for an Emmy (or two) performance(s).
I am glad I watched the film before reading the historical events just so that I kept an open mind. Now that I have seen this Lifetime TV film, and read the background info on the criminal, 29-year-old Ming Sen Shiue (played drably by Howie Lai) I can close the book for good. It's a drab time waster that I cannot recommend anyone watching.
I give it a so-so 5 out of 10 IMDB rating
This true story deserved a lot better actors to tell it.
These true stories SHOULD be treated as true stories and not some cleaned up version. It's a disservice.
The acting is absolutely attrocious. The little girl lacks any acting skills, I wonder who cast her in this movie, and why. As for the professional actors, especially the only name recognizable, Alyson Hannigan, they all should be ashamed of portraying of real life persons with such incompetence.
The soundtrack is cloying. The dialogue is inane. Eg., Question: "How long have you been watching me?". Answer: "Nobody will find you".
The scenario is illogical: the only time the abducted mother screams for help is several weeks after being locked in a closet when the kidnapper plays LOUD music!
Everything in this movie makes you aware how FAKE and idiotic it is.
Everyone involved in making this movie did an abysmal job.
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- TriviaAlternate title is "Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story".
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Mary Stauffer: Even if we aren't having troubles at the present time, I think, we can all agree that we have all faced trouble at some point in our lives. But what do we do? What resources do we have to deal with the troubles of our lives? How do we come through it when even the most ardent faith is challenged.
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