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Synopsis: Teenager Cassandra is locked up against her will unable to contact her family to let them know she's still alive. Flashback to eight years ago when 9-year-old Cass was abducted from her father's truck and he goes straight to the authorities who immediately peg him as the prime suspect. Eight years later, her father, Matthew, is still being investigated by the police who are also trying to crack the bigger problem of crimes against children, Matthew's marriage has deteriorated and leads in the case are hard to come by. So much time but so little has changed and it's going to be up to Matthew and Cassandra herself to repair the estranged family.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Atom Egoyan
Production: A24 and DIRECTV
  1 win & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
30%
R
Year:
2014
112 min
Website
692 Views


Of course you do.

I miss my daughter so much.

- I called the police. Now get outta here.

- You called the police?

The police, they're a

useless bunch of...

They're... they're the real

monsters here, the police.

They're all in this together with the

judges and the lawyers and the priests

and all those people that

we're supposed to trust.

They know where Cass is.

They're all the ones

that are hiding her.

He took my phone.

F***!

F***. F***!

F***!

Hey! Hey!

We just have to go somewhere.

Put her down!

Freeze!

Freeze!

Don't move!

Don't move or I'll shoot! Don't move!

Where is she?

Where's Nicole? Answer me!

Where, where, where?

A van. Where she had

her fourteenth birthday

Fourteenth birthday?

What the hell are you talking about?

Where's the van, man? Where is it?

You know we're gonna

find it, now tell us!

Where's the van? Where is it?

Just tell us where it is. Where is it?!

Cassie?

Daddy...

Baby!

All those years,

you guys wouldn't let up.

It wasn't just for you,

you know, it was for Nicole too.

For her spirit.

It was really important for her.

They'll find her. I know they will.

Your team is so smart.

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Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan, CC is a Canadian director, writer, producer and former actor. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica, a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club. more…

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