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Synopsis: Tabloid stories centered on the activities of Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen with a self-reported IQ of 168, over her life are presented. Beyond her beauty pageant days, McKinney first hit the tabloid pages in Britain in what was largely coined "The Case of the Manacled Mormon". As reported by McKinney in interviews, she, a southern Christian originally from North Carolina, got involved with a group of Mormons in her pursuit of true love, without knowing they were Mormons or anything about Mormonism. She fell in love with one of those Mormons, Kirk Anderson, the two who were to be married. After he disappeared without saying anything to her, she, with the help of a private investigator and some male friends and new acquaintances, tracked him down in England where he was being brainwashed by Mormon elders, that brainwashing which included the notion of sex with and marriage to her, a non-Mormon, as taboo. He left with her voluntarily, she who took him away to a secluded cottage t
Director(s): Errol Morris
Production: IFC Films
  4 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2010
87 min
$680,468
Website
186 Views


# I hope they call me

on a mission #

You leave as a boy.

You come back as a man.

For Kirk, when he reaches

the age of 19,

he doesn't get whisked away

from Joyce.

He's just fulfilling

his religious spiritual

responsibilities.

Joyce knew where he'd gone

and set up this plan

with her strange,

unexplained friend Keith May

to come over to the U.K.

I had a really good friend

from Torrance, California.

He was an architect,

and his name

was Keith Joseph May.

Everybody called him "K.J."

K.J. Was like my big brother,

and he said to me,

"I don't want you going over

there to England by yourself."

Said, "You don't know what

they're gonna do to ya."

All I knew

is this powerful group

had done something

to the man I loved.

We got two bodyguards

to go with us.

One was a big guy that was...

what do you call...

a body-builder guy.

And the other was a pilot.

I was interested in something

a little bit more exciting

than what I was doing.

I saw an ad in the newspaper.

They wanted a pilot to fly

short trips in England,

and it sounded kind

of interesting to me.

So I called the phone number,

and a gentleman answered,

and an appointment was made

for the following week.

I was expecting to go

to an office

or something like that,

but it turned out to be

an apartment building.

I was taken in by a gentleman

by the name of Keith.

And after I was there

for a few minutes,

why, Joyce came out.

Tell me about

that first meeting.

Well, I was

favorably impressed.

She had a totally

see-through blouse on.

I can even remember the color.

It was a light brown,

totally see-through blouse.

No bra?

- No bra,

see-through blouse.

She was very, very easy

to talk to.

At one point, she came over

and sat down next to me.

I was trying to perceive

what type of relationship

existed between Keith and her

at that point.

Perhaps maybe down the line,

I might want to ask this girl

out for dinner or something.

Joyce had a trunk

that she brought out,

and in it were folders,

pictures, tablets,

letters from a private

investigator in England.

She then unraveled a story to me

that was just unreal.

Joyce had hired bodyguards,

she told me, from Gold's Gym.

She was gonna put 'em up

while they were there

in England,

and they were going to liberate

her fianc from this cult group.

In the back of my mind,

I was trying to figure out how

she could have all this money

to take all these people

to England.

She told me she was a model.

I didn't realize models

made that kind of money.

We actually hired some guys

to go with us from Los Angeles

in case we were attacked

or anything.

I didn't know

what was gonna happen.

I didn't know what

I was gonna be walking into.

I didn't know if they would

release him willingly or what.

I didn't know if they would

do something to hurt me.

I didn't know.

Joyce called me

and wanted to know

if I would fly her someplace in

an airplane locally for dinner.

That sounded pretty good.

I thought it might possibly be

an overnight trip or something,

and I was more than up for that.

But when Joyce showed up,

much to my surprise,

Keith was with her.

I felt this was a time

that I could try to make

a determination

on how real she was

and her financial ability.

So I did rent the most expensive

airplane that was possible,

single-engine,

a Beechcraft A36 Bonanza.

When you rent an airplane

like that,

you have to give 'em

a credit card,

and they lock in the approximate

amount it was gonna be.

Joyce didn't have a credit card.

But she did bring out

an envelope

filled with

hundred-dollar bills.

That brought me

a little bit closer to realizing

maybe she has the money to do

what she wants to do.

So we flew down to San Diego.

We had dinner,

and we flew back.

Didn't stay the night.

No.

No.

Keith was with her, and so...

that was three people there.

That's not for me.

I take it that you

were attracted to Joyce.

Yes.

She was in her late 20s,

had an outstanding figure,

had a Southern accent,

long blonde hair.

Any heterosexual male

would be attracted to Joyce.

Prior to our departure from

the United States to England,

they wanted me

to meet the bodyguard.

His name was Gil.

Gil would come to their place.

I would come to their place,

then we would go down

to the beach.

Then they told me the beach they

were going to was a nude beach.

Well, I've never been

to a nude beach,

so that really slowed me down

a little bit.

Joyce spread out a blanket

and proceeded to take off

all her clothes.

Totally.

Very quickly,

three to four guys showed up

around the blanket

and started taking pictures.

I don't know

where they came from.

Joyce protested,

tried to stop them.

She claimed

that she was a model,

and she didn't want photographs

taken of her.

After about 15 minutes,

Joyce put on her clothes,

and we left the beach.

And so we met at Los Angeles

International Airport.

Keith May was there,

Joyce McKinney,

Gil Parker, and myself.

First off, Gil Parker

had a problem

when he went through customs.

They asked him

what his occupation was,

and he told 'em

he was a bodyguard.

And they said, "For who?"

And they said,

"For Joyce and Keith."

Well, that put up a red flag,

evidently, in customs,

and they pulled him out.

Well, that scared Gil

right there.

Then, on the second day, we were

in a motel room together,

and Joyce had a lot of baggage.

I'd never seen anybody travel

with so many bags.

And they took out

wireless microphone

and listening devices.

Surprised me.

I wasn't sure what they

were going to use it for.

It was something you

could probably

just have carried

through customs,

but they had it inside

of a portable radio.

Well, when Gil seen this,

that about did it for him.

That was when

he called me outside

and said he wanted to go back

the next day.

The private investigator

had told Joyce

two or three different places

where Kirk was at,

and Keith was gonna go

into some of these places

where this cult group

was supposed to be,

ask questions,

and it would be transmitted out

to Joyce in the car...

wirelessly.

Keith May and I, we wanted to

go out a little bit on our own,

but Joyce was keeping us

so busy, we couldn't,

so one day, she...

Keeping you so busy?

Yeah, driving places,

checking out places,

walking places.

She had this wig,

this wig she called "Matilda."

And she'd wear this strange wig

when we'd go out driving

sometime and sunglasses.

And any time we'd go down near

one of these churches

where they were trying

to find out

if Kirk was gonna be

at that church

or if that was one

he frequented,

she'd have that wig on.

We were across,

in front of a building.

Outcome two young men

dressed in suits,

a tie, and a white shirt.

And she told me,

"There is Kirk."

Well, I was totally surprised.

This was nobody

being held captive.

And that's when Joyce

kind of leveled with me.

She showed me a bottle

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