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The Captive
2014
· Movie
· 112 min
F
MEANRANK
49/100
Every rating
28–62
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 28, highest is Trakt on 62. Critics average 32, everyone else 54.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Eight years after their daughter's disappearance, her parents are still haunted by the tragedy. The father believes he has seen his now-teenage daughter in a online video. His obsession leads the police to suspect he may be involved, while he becomes convinced that her abductor is taunting him and that she may still be alive.
Details
- Director
- Atom Egoyan
- Writers
- Atom Egoyan, David Fraser
- Studio
- The Film Farm, Ego Film Arts
- Released
- 5 September 2014
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $1.1M
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