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Synopsis: Seventeen years after she was abducted by a stranger named Benjamin McKay, twenty-three year old Leanne Dargon, who has been in his captivity all this time, is discovered, and eventually reunited with her biological parents, Marcy and Glen Dargon, while Ben is now in prison charged with her kidnap. Ben was able to hide her locked in his basement all this time, telling her that he saved her from world destruction, which she would have no reason not to believe. Leanne has no true recollection of her time before Ben, who renamed her Leia, and thus is the only family she has ever known. Over those seventeen years, Marcy and Glen dealt with the abduction in different ways, Marcy whose primary focus was and still is Leanne, to the point of never having returned to work. Marcy, Glen and Leia enter into their reunion with this history. So while Marcy and Glen have a memory of their six year old daughter who they want back in a young adult form, Leia only sees in front of her two strangers. The
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Nikole Beckwith
Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Cynthia Nixon, Jason Isaacs, David Warshofsky
Production: Fido Features
  4 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
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Year:
2015
99 min
467 Views

I thought before

that you only fought

against things you didn't.

But now I know there are

different ways of doing it.

It's not that I don't

not love you specifically.

I maybe don't love anyone,

maybe.

Or maybe that doesn't matter.

I'd say I wish

I could be different,

but I don't.

I don't know

what that would be.

I'm sorry I don't remember you

from before,

but I'll remember you now.

I didn't leave

because you were bad.

The whole point of taking

everything away from me

in the first place

was that I would

get to be someone.

I mean, I am someone,

when I'm alone.

But when I'm with other people,

I am what they think I am.

I don't know how to be that.

And I think I don't want to be

something to share anymore.

I thought you couldn't

choose your family

and that you were trying

to make me choose you.

But then I saw

that Ben chose me.

He picked me out,

and he made me his.

And there is no one

choosing that.

There is no un-growing up.

It's time for me

to grow up for good...

and have something that's mine.

And mine only.

Sincerely, Leia.

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Nikole Beckwith

Nikole Beckwith is an American actress and playwright; until 2006 she lived in Newburyport, Massachusetts where she was integral to the theater, music and art communities and in 2004 became the youngest recipient of The Johnson Award for excellence in and contributions to the arts in the Merrimack Valley. Primarily an actor and playwright, she has also performed live with a handful of bands and sings on Tiger Saw's 2005 record "Sing!" and Sam Rosen's 2006 release "The Look South". She authored a short book of poems, Rhymes With Blue, which was released in a limited run by Independent Submarine in 2001. She lives in New York where in 2006 she was a three time Manhattan Monologue Slam champion and is currently a member of Ensemble studio theatre's YoungBlood playwright's group and The Striking Viking Story Pirates. Her screenplay Stockholm, Pennsylvania won a 2012 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.She wrote and directed the feature film Stockholm, Pennsylvania about a young woman who is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The film was acquired by Lifetime and premiered on their TV channel on May 2, 2015. more…

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