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FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

jeanellemajcen We just saw this at the library and picked it up because I love movies based on true stories! We both kept trying to figure it out and had us on the edge of the seat the entire time! I would recommend it to all my friends! Maybe a little run of the mill, but anything but boring!!!!!!! You would never guess the ending, awesome flick!Kind of jumped around a bit as far as story lines, but once you got into the movie, you understood it! Give it a watch, it is worth the time!I did not know anybody in the movie as big stars, but that doesn't always matter! It is the acting of who is in it!One of those movies you look back on and go, wow, we should watch that again!

Ed-Shullivan Warning: This movie should not be seen by anyone under the age of 16All parents and teenagers (16 years or older) should watch this movie in an effort to become more aware of your surroundings and to understand that evil predators exist amongst us. In real life, there remains thousands of parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, who have been left wondering what happened to their tiny angel(s) on that one tragic day that seemed to start out just like any other day, when the child was left unattended for just a few minutes only to go missing forever more. This is a tragedy and mystery that occurs every day across North America and we always think it won't happen to our own family.Stolen Lives is a movie that depicts a series of tragic events that occurred 50 years earlier when a good family man named Matthew Wakefield played by Josh Lucas, who is struggling to find work and keep his three young sons together as a family, makes a critical mistake and leaves one of his sons alone in the car for just a few minutes one evening. When Matthew returns to his car, his son is gone. Frantically he goes to the local sheriff for assistance but due to Matthew Wakefield's impropriety with a married woman on the evening his son went missing, and his son being mentally challenged, the sheriff is not very sympathetic nor interested in determining what happened to this young boy. It is a fact that back in the first half of the last century child abductions were not intelligently nor systematically investigated or documented to assess what we now know was the work and existence of serial killers. The movie smartly flips back and forth between the fifty year span of the two missing boys initial disappearances. Matthew Wakefield is seen searching for his lost son in the 1950's, and then the scene switches to the current period where detective Tom Adkins Sr is seen searching endlessly for clues into the disappearance of his young and innocent son. The movie provides us with comparisons between the two crimes. Mr. Wakefields lost son disappeared while he was left sleeping in their car, and then the director smartly takes us to current events and the scene flips to a period when an off duty detective named Tom Adkins Sr. played superbly by Jon Hamm takes his young son out to the local carnival for the afternoon and while sitting having some lunch in a trailer type diner he leaves his son alone for just 2 minutes so that he can use the diners rest room. When Detecive Adkins returns to his table his son has completely vanished with no clues, no witnesses, and most importantly, no son. The message I absorbed from these two tragic events is that child abductions have been occurring by serial killers who if not yet been arrested and that they will continue with their evil crimes if not caught. The outcome of these two tragic events that span 50 years is that families never recover and typically ones own guilt overpowers all other emotions as these crimes of opportunity could have been easily prevented. We as good parents have a certain level of trust and security in our own communities but unfortunately these two fathers were not attentive parents on just a single occasion. As a result of the fathers letting their guard down on just a single occasion they become victims and it causes a series of events that affect their own lives as well as the lives of their their extended families who also fall into despair, wondering and praying for their young angels to return home. Truth is however, that thousands of innocent children who are abducted are never found.We have recently learned of a few happy endings such as with the two unrelated discoveries of two missing children whose names are Jaycee Dugard and Shawn Hornbeck who were kidnapped and kept in captivity for years before they were eventually found and returned to their families, albeit many years later with their innocence tarnished forever. Stolen Lives is a movie I recommend to all families as long as their age is over 16. Whether you are married, single, have children, plan to have children in the future, or you are a babysitter minding your siblings, or minding a neighbor's children, please watch this movie. It will certainly hone your sense of responsibility and impress upon all of us how easily a brief lapse in judgement, or a misguided level of trust in humanity needs to be balanced with reality and a higher level of protection for our most blessed gift, our children. Serial killers exist more than we are prepared to comprehend and they prey on the weak and unassuming. This is a great movie with a great cast and the director laid out the movie and series of tragic events over 50 years superbly. Lets always keep our guard up and our children safe from these evil predators.

Cold Heart I was flipping through channels late last night when I found Stolen. I must admit I was frozen and watched the whole movie without touching the remote control. I know Josh Lucas from another movie or show that I don't remember, I know Jessica Chastain and a few more from the cast but not a fan enough to watch their movie for the name alone. I don't know the director so the movie held the whole of my attention in the wee hours of the night is a feat I must say.I didn't find Stolen worthy of an Oscar in all reality. The movie doesn't look too ambitious to be an Oscar hopeful. Instead it speaks the language of complex human emotions and very subliminally narrates entwined tragedies of misfortune, of personal behavior and of choices. There's also the presence of thumping, pulsating Love which continues in the face of all tragedies and human errors and it continues in the presence of sheer evil which alters, breaks or destroys each life it touches. The pure joy in my opinion is the fact that we don't get all of this message in the form of a melodramatic speech from one of the characters in the movie rather the movie leaves a narrative from which we decipher it's meaning.Beautiful.I give it 7/10 for thought provoking entertainment and raise it to 8/10 for staying true to it's subject without stretching itself in hope of winning any accolades.

mareleigh-471-742498 We were given a mystery within a mystery. The director lead us into the emotional pain of parents who have lost a child, only to be given a clue as to the resolve for their missing child through the discovery of the probably first missing child in the list to be compiled by the Serial Killer. It's complexity are the clues that are so cleverly left as you watch the movie, leaving you with so many unanswered questions when the credits appear and you know, there is more and the opportunity to explore has ended. Excellent movie displaying a visual unspoken story of what to look for in a child molester, and what would provoke the death of a child. Now, I want to find the book, the original story. There is more within to help answer my questions.