Stockholm, Pennsylvania
6.4 /10 1 Votes
Genre Drama, Thriller Duration Director Nikole Beckwith Screenplay Nikole Beckwith | 6.2/10 IMDb Writer Nikole Beckwith Initial release January 23, 2015 Running time 1h 39m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Music director Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Brian Mcomber Cast Saoirse Ronan (Leia), Cynthia Nixon (Marcy), Jason Isaacs (Ben), David Warshofsky (Glen)Similar movies The Young Captives (1959), Stone (2010), Run for Your Life (2014), Corn (2002), Guilty Hearts (2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stockholm, Pennsylvania is a 2015 drama film directed by Nikole Beckwith. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It is Beckwith's directorial and film-writing debut. The screenplay was awarded the 2012 Nicholl Fellowship from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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It was produced by Greg Ammon, Leslie Urdang and Dan Halsted with the studio Fido Features. The story was acquired by Lifetime on March 26, 2015, and made its television premiere on May 2, 2015. The movie is edited by Joe Klotz.
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Plot
Leanne Dargon (Saoirse Ronan as an adult) is kidnapped at age 4 by Ben McKay (Jason Isaacs), who confines her to his basement and renames her Leia. She is reunited with her parents, Marcy and Glen Dargon (Cynthia Nixon and David Warshofsky) after 17 years. Suffering from Stockholm syndrome, Leia still sees Ben as her father, and sees two strangers in her biological parents. As time passes though Marcy becomes the unstable one, throwing Glen out of the house, locking Leia up and controlling her every action. In the end Leia escapes the captivity and vows to make a life of her own.
Reception
The film received mixed reviews, critics comparing the second half unfavorably with the first. Indiewire's Rodrigo Perez wrote in his review that "the tone-deaf misjudgment of the film’s second half is catastrophic; a bafflingly ill-advised blunder that “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” never recovers from".
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Stockholm, Pennsylvania WikipediaStockholm, Pennsylvania IMDb Stockholm, Pennsylvania themoviedb.org