Stockholm, Pennsylvania Page #6

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
Production: Fido Features
  4 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
Year:
2015
99 min
460 Views


through the search initiatives

and the anniversary vigils

and you never going

back to work.

That's not fair.

Nothing's fair.

You have to move on,

especially now,

now that it's over.

- It's not over.

- Because of you.

You stopped.

Everything stopped.

Why is it that

when you talk about it,

it's always like something

that only happened to me,

like you're some noble outsider,

some... some saint,

who sacrificed his life for me.

I have sacrificed my life.

No.

It was taken.

Our life was taken,

and you are not giving

me anything, or her.

Why won't you read

one of these books?

Why won't you show

an even minor interest

in how hard this is?

It doesn't have to be

that hard.

How would you even begin

to know how hard it is

if you won't let yourself

be a part of it?

In case you haven't noticed,

we need your help,

whether you think we do

or not.

I didn't know

anyone was in here.

No one said

if I could get out.

Let me get you a towel.

We want to talk to you

about your future.

My future?

We know that you're smart

and that you know things.

And we think that

maybe the best way

to assess what you already know

and structure

your future learning

might be a tutor.

What's a tutor?

A teacher.

A teacher who comes

to the house

and works with you

to make sure you have

everything you need.

Leia.

- Leia.

- Go away.

Leia.

- Go away!

- Hey.

Hey, that's not fair.

Where have you been?

I'm sorry.

That's what's not fair.

- Where have you been?

- I'm sorry!

Three days!

You left me for three days!

Two and a half days.

Why would you do that?

Why?

I'm sorry.

- I called your name.

- I know.

You get everything!

- All right, all right.

- I hate you!

Get it all out.

All right, all right,

hey, hey, hey.

Care!

Why don't you care

that I hate you?

Because you don't hate me.

Yes, I do!

You want me to die

like an animal!

Aah!

Stop it!

Stop it now!

Now, look at me!

Look!

Leia.

Now we are even, yes?

But I didn't mean

to hurt you.

I didn't mean

to stay away so long.

You did mean to hit me.

You aimed.

You got me, on purpose.

Okay.

Okay?

And I didn't mean

to hurt you.

I don't believe you.

If you don't believe me,

then... then what?

Then what have you got?

Nothing.

That's the point.

I don't have anything.

Don't... don't say that.

Look, everything I do

is for you.

If you don't have anything,

then what am I?

I'm...

I'm a failure?

Come on.

Shh.

Come on, shh.

What's gonna happen

to me, Ben?

What's gonna happen

to me after this?

There...

There is no "after this. "

Anyway, think about it.

We've got three weeks

till the first session.

Leia?

Okay.

Brennan, Pennsylvania.

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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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