Captive (2015)
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Critic Consensus: Captive undermines committed performances from Kate Mara and David Oyelowo -- and the real-life story they're dramatizing -- with a thin script doubling as an ad for a self-help book.
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Cast
as Ashley Smith
as Brian Nichols
as Det. John Chestnut
as Kim Rogers
as Meredith MacKenzie
as Det. Sanchez
as FBI Agent
as Sgt.Teasley
as Randy
as Mrs. Nichols
as Atlanta Police Officer Boltbee
as Paige
as Cameron Sampson
as Lynn Campbell
as Officer Henderson
as Prisoner
as Commander Bradley Simpson
as Melissa
as JD
as APD Officer
as Sheriff Walters
as Cheryl
Critic Reviews for Captive
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The thin story has been stretched like Silly Putty to feature-film length and the result is utterly see-through in its sledgehammer moralizing.
Captive winds up building to a big nothing.
Though the film ends with a whimper instead of a bang, Oyelowo and Mara's riveting, embodied performances rise above the material.
The problem, alas, is that Mara and Oyelowo are ultimately captive in a script that doesn't allow its characters to stretch outside their preordained boundaries.
The film's police-procedural action is unimaginatively presented, but Oyelowo is compelling ...
For a movie about purpose, "Captive" never finds its own.
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Captive Quotes
| Ashley Smith: | The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. |
| Ashley Smith: | I need to see my daughter. |
| Brian Nichols: | You are not goin' anywhere. |
| Ashley Smith: | I need to see my daughter. |
| Brian Nichols: | You are not going anywhere. |
| Ashley Smith: | I've lost everything. My husbands dead. The state said I'm an unfit mother and took away my kid. |