Captive (2015)

Directed by

Jerry Jameson

Genre

drama film, prison film, crime film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 293 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man escapes from a courthouse and takes a woman hostage in her own apartment in a real life story. The film focuses on their tense time together in the small space.

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What happens

Captive is a 2015 American crime-drama thriller film directed by Jerry Jameson and written by Brian Bird and Reinhard Denke, based on the non-fiction book Unlikely Angel by Ashley Smith. A true story about Brian Nichols, who escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta on March 11, 2005 and holds Ashley Smith as a hostage, the film stars David Oyelowo as Nichols and Kate Mara as Smith. Filming began in October 2013 in North Carolina. The film was released worldwide on September 18, 2015 by Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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