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The Captive (2014)

★ 5.8 · 1,162 ratings on TMDB

When hope is all you have.

The Captive poster★ 5.8

Eight years after their daughter Cassandra's abduction tore them apart, an estranged couple discover disturbing clues that indicate that she is still alive.

DirectorAtom Egoyan
CastAlexia Fast, Arsinée Khanjian, Brendan Gall, Bruce Greenwood, Christine Horne, Kevin Durand
GenresCrime, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Captive keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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