Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)

Stockholm, Pennsylvania: Directed by Nikole Beckwith. With Saoirse Ronan, Cynthia Nixon, Jason Isaacs, David Warshofsky. A young woman, kidnapped when she was a child, returns home to the family she barely remembers and struggles to feel at home.

“There are some interesting ideas in this movie sadly they were not implemented…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Stockholm, Pennsylvaniau0026quot; a young woman kidnapped at 4 and kept in a basement for 18 years is reunited with the parents she doesnu0026#39;t remember,the child-kidnapping genre usually it focuses on the victim and the abductor and ends when the subject is found.This film had a more original spin and focused on the after math.I give the film points for originality, one usually does not see this part we only see the victimu0026#39;s arms wrapped around their parents and the credits start to roll. Leia is deeply attached to the mild-mannered end-of-days cultist (Jason Isaacs, in a very small role) who kidnapped her and cut her off from the outside world. But that enforced seclusion also means that at 22 sheu0026#39;s facing the childhood challenges and embarrassments of learning how to operate in the adult world.all this sounds like a filmmakeru0026#39;s dream protect.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSadly it takes a turn we put ourselves in the shoes of the mother although her intentions are good, she becomes extremely obsessive to get her daughter back to the point that her actions are not so different from the kidnapper,thatu0026#39;s when the film loses me,it becomes unrealistic, it is an obsession to achieve her daughters love at all costs.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStrong performances from Saoirse Ronan and Cynthia Nixon, they manage to get the high points of the movie,I leaned more to Emma Donaghueu0026#39;s compelling 2010 novel Room, which developed far more bracing and psychologically nuanced drama out of a similar scenario of shut-ins readjusting to an unknown world.”