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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
661 Views


- No?

Is she... is she in the back? Can you

take a look for me, please, thank you?

- Nothing?

- No.

Cass!

Cassandra!

Cass!

Cass!

Cass!

I have a plan.

A few minutes.

That's all you'll have together.

Do I get to talk to him?

Yes.

Does my Dad get to talk to me?

Yes, Cass he does.

And we'll be listening.

Of course, I was thinking

some kind of mic...

hidden microphone.

What are you so worried about?

I have no idea where I am.

How would he ever find me?

I don't even know your name.

Not a word...

or else...

You'll kill him.

Wouldn't it just be easier to kill me...

now that I'm all grown up?

Now that you've lost interest.

I can't be that valuable

doing what I'm doing.

Oh, you are so valuable, Cassandra.

Doing exactly what you're doing.

- So it was the patrolman that flagged him?

- Yeah. Kicked down to us.

- Okay.

- Ready?

Yeah.

- Okay?

- It's strange they'd send him here.

Well, there weren't any

detectives at the main station.

My buddy must have known

that I could do it.

I'm not used to interviewing adults.

You'll be fine.

Mr. Lane.

Hi. I'm Detective Dunlop and

this is Detective Cornwall.

We have read through your statement that

you gave to the patrolman an hour ago.

We'd just like to go over

a few details with you.

Yeah. Good.

Is it okay if we record this?

Yeah. Did you see my wife?

Did someone give her a ride down?

I don't know anything

about your wife, Mr. Lane.

I... I called her three hours ago.

It shouldn't take her this long to get here.

I'm worried that she went to the

main police station, not this one.

I told her to take a cab.

Okay. Let's just get

through these questions first

and then we'll look into the

whereabouts of your wife. All right?

Just to be clear, this conversation

is completely voluntary.

And you are not being

forced to tell us anything.

Do you understand this?

- "Yes".

- Yes.

Okay. Now, you say you were

in the diner for how long?

A few minutes. Less.

Okay. Were there any other customers?

- No. I... I didn't see any.

- No customers.

It says here you bought a pie?

Yeah, we bought a...

we bought a cherry pie. My...

my daughter... Yeah, we do

it every week after practice.

I gotta get a pie.

And I asked Linda if they

had chocolate ice cream...

Sorry, you mean Lesley?

And they... they... No.

Linda. They didn't have any chocolate

ice cream. Can I call my wife now?

It's "Lesley". I'm sorry,

it says Lesley right there.

It says "Linda". I can see it from here.

And my nine-year-old

daughter's another mile away.

You have very good eyesight, Mr. Lane.

But you claim you didn't see anything

suspicious when you

looked back to the truck?

It's been three hours since...

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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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