Stockholm, Pennsylvania

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Stockholm, Pennsylvania

2015

1h 41m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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Kidnapped at age 4 by a stranger (Jason Isaacs), a woman (Saoirse Ronan) reunites with her family and tries to adjust to normality after spending 17 years in captivity.

David Rooney

The Hollywood Reporter

Jan 24, 2015

Strong performances from Saoirse Ronan and Cynthia Nixon keep Stockholm, Pennsylvania intense and absorbing, but Nicole Beckwith's initial impulse to tell her confinement story as a stage play feels as if it might have been a sounder choice.

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Brian Moylan

Guardian

Jan 24, 2015

3/5

With a bit more maturity and confidence in her vision, Beckwith is sure to come up with something that's a knockout all the way through.

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Tim Grierson

Screen International

Jan 24, 2015

A well-meaning disappointment, striving to say something about family and motherhood but mishandling the execution.

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Dan Mecca

The Film Stage

Feb 25, 2016

C-

A provocative subject deserves a provocative platform. And while Stockholm, Pennsylvania is certainly provocative, it could stand to be a bit smarter.

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Gregory Ellwood

HitFix

Mar 19, 2015

C

The director originally conceived of "Stockholm" as a theater piece. Her original instinct may have better served the material.

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Eric D. Snider

GeekNation

Feb 13, 2015

C+

Sincere but convoluted... The almost-campy plot mechanisms make it hard to take it very seriously.

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52Carolld D

@52Carolld Apr 2, 2026

This is a horrible movie. I was under the impression that the movie was about a family that had as child kidnapped and they were trying to be a family again after being separated for so many years. It is a movie about a psycho who kidnapped a little girl and when she returned home to the mother the girl discovered her mother was yet a worse psycho with an idiotic husband and therapists that did nothing to help her get away from her psycho mother. There is no way this movie can be compared to what a family would do if this was true and thank goodness it was just a horribly written script which reality does not follow. There is no way in the world that I believe a woman whose child was kidnapped would do such a horrible thing to her. So no this movie does not follow what would happen. It is 100% fiction and poorly written at that. Change the description of the movie to read the movie is about what a person would not do to their child. Totally garbage, do not waste your time watching.

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Aug 25, 2023

Have seen better but try it. You might like it James Welch, Henderson, Arkansas August 24, 2023.

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steve d

@RT35616104 Dec 11, 2022

Not an easy watch but an interesting one. Ronan is fantastic.

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farah r

@Farah Oct 27, 2018

The only good reason to watch this painstakingly slow and boring drama is Saoirse Ronan's impressive performance.

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May 5, 2017

My interest was held only by the focused performance of gifted actress Saoirse Ronan. Suffers from meandering direction of a work that may have played better on the stage.

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Feb 16, 2017

The only good thing about this film is Saoirse. The other characters are either underused or freaks (like Leanne's "mother" Marcy). Marcy was in fact one of the most annoying characters in any film. Irrational, cruel, unstable and with a really whiney voice. I don't get the point of the film really, the mentally ill one is the mother, not the daughter.

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Synopsis

Kidnapped at age 4 by a stranger (Jason Isaacs), a woman (Saoirse Ronan) reunites with her family and tries to adjust to normality after spending 17 years in captivity.

Director: Nikole Beckwith
Producer: Greg Ammon, Dan Halsted, Leslie Urdang
Screenwriter: Nikole Beckwith
Production Co: Olympus Pictures
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 7, 2017
Runtime: 1h 41m

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