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Stolen

Original title: Stolen Lives
  • 2009
  • R
  • 1h 31m
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6.1/10
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Jon Hamm and Josh Lucas in Stolen (2009)
Work has become an obsession for Detective Tom Adkins (Jon Hamm) since the disappearance of his ten-year-old son, Tommy Jr. When an early morning phone call leads him to the mangled remains of a young boy who was brutally murdered 50 years ago, Adkins takes on the case in hopes of finding absolution. His investigation leads him to a man who lived in 1958 named Matthew Wakefield (Josh Lucas) and his innocent son, John. The striking similarities in the cases pushes Adkins' obsession over the top. Barely holding onto his sanity and bound by redemption, Adkins unravels the unspeakable truth behind what happened to his son.
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A detective deals with the loss of his own son while trying to uncover the identity of a boy whose mummified remains are found in a box buried for fifty years.A detective deals with the loss of his own son while trying to uncover the identity of a boy whose mummified remains are found in a box buried for fifty years.A detective deals with the loss of his own son while trying to uncover the identity of a boy whose mummified remains are found in a box buried for fifty years.

  • Director
    • Anders Anderson
  • Writer
    • Glenn Taranto
  • Stars
    • Jon Hamm
    • Josh Lucas
    • Rhona Mitra
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
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    • Director
      • Anders Anderson
    • Writer
      • Glenn Taranto
    • Stars
      • Jon Hamm
      • Josh Lucas
      • Rhona Mitra
    • 38User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
    • 34Metascore
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    Jon Hamm
    Jon Hamm
    • Tom Adkins Sr.
    Josh Lucas
    Josh Lucas
    • Matthew Wakefield
    Rhona Mitra
    Rhona Mitra
    • Barbara
    James Van Der Beek
    James Van Der Beek
    • Diploma…
    Jessica Chastain
    Jessica Chastain
    • Sally Ann
    Joanna Cassidy
    Joanna Cassidy
    • Lea Adkins
    Jimmy Bennett
    Jimmy Bennett
    • John Wakefield
    Morena Baccarin
    Morena Baccarin
    • Rose Montgomery
    Michael Cudlitz
    Michael Cudlitz
    • Jonas
    Andy Milder
    Andy Milder
    • William Daniels
    Holt McCallany
    Holt McCallany
    • Swede
    Jude Ciccolella
    Jude Ciccolella
    • Police Chief
    Rick Gomez
    Rick Gomez
    • Officer JJ
    Marcus Thomas
    Marcus Thomas
    • Pete Dunne
    Graham Phillips
    Graham Phillips
    • Mark Wakefield
    Christian Bender
    • Luke Wakefield
    Sam Hennings
    Sam Hennings
    • Older Luke Wakefield
    Tom Kemp
    Tom Kemp
    • Russell MacArthur
    • Director
      • Anders Anderson
    • Writer
      • Glenn Taranto
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    • Trivia
      Screenwriter Glenn Taranto wrote his first draft of the screenplay, originally titled "The Boy in the Box", in six days over a two week period. He was inspired by the famous unsolved case of "America's Unknown Child" aka The Boy In The Box. Working backwards Glenn created an original scenario detailing how such an unsolved crime might have occurred. Should anyone have any information regarding the real "Boy In The Box" case they are encouraged to contact the Philadelphia, PA Police Department.
    • Goofs
      We see the box being buried in concrete, yet when the box is being dug up it is just buried under earth.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Tom Adkins Sr.: My biggest fear is that when I do find him, what's left of us may not be enough. I haven't been able to forgive myself, and so I push my wife away. I can't even look her in the eyes, because every time I do, I see my mistakes. So I take the risk of losing everything. Not because I want to, but because I have to. Only then will I have the strength to go to my wife and ask her for forgiveness. And I have to believe that one day she will give it to me.

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    4/10
    Fifty years on...
    This thriller, starring "Mad Men's" John Hamm, while watchable, ultimately fails through implausible plotting and the contrived use of coincidence.

    Consider Hamm's anguished cop, who, at a Fourth of July pageant, in the mere minutes it took him to go to and from the toilet in a diner establishment, finds the son who accompanied him has apparently disappeared as if into thin air, never to return. It later transpires that he encounters the perpetrator just outside the diner, so how has he managed to spirit away his son and got back to the pageant in those mere minutes?

    Years pass, with Hamm unable to get over his loss and attendant guilt, the emotional distance between him and his wife widening close to separation point, when a child's body is unearthed, bearing similarities to his own child and immediately throwing suspicion on a long-interred suspect. The movie then moves back and forth in time from the present-day to 1958 where we see enacted the story of the disappearance (thankfully, there are no scenes depicting the actual murder of the children) of the first child and the truth is gradually brought to light as the stories converge.

    That's quite a lot to bring together in a mere 90 minutes and after all the exposition, the ending is wound up in double quick time, with a too blatant slip by the murderer and too easily obtained subsequent confession. I also thought the 1958 story was more involving, if more implausible than the present-day one, contriving a "Postman Always Rings Twice" dalliance between the father and a local femme-fatale, complete with jealous husband, unbalancing the narrative, although the transitions between the two time-frames were cleverly done, with dissolves on the shared crime-scene exhibits.

    The acting was okay, Hamm jutting his jaw and running his hand through his hair in familiar angst-ridden fashion, although I thought the better acting was done by Josh Lucas as his 1950's counterpart, conveying just the right composite of Henry Fonda crossed with James Stewart as the drifter at the mercy of fate, while Morena Baccarin and James Van der Beek playing respectively the slack wife and the murderer made strong, if brief impressions too.

    In the end, this was a fairly routine thriller, lacking somewhat in tension, characterisation and credibility, with more of the aspects of a TV movie than Hollywood feature. I don't think I'd pay to watch it, seeing it on the small-screen seemed about right.
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    • Release date
      • October 10, 2009 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Boy in the Box
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • 2 Bridges Productions
      • A2 Entertainment Group
      • Boy in the Box
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    • Budget
      • $2,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $7,943
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,035
      • Mar 14, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $7,943
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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