Catch and Release (2018)
- Directed by
- Laurie Colbert, Dominique Cardona
- Genre
- drama, thriller
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A woman is kidnapped by an extremist anti-abortion group after becoming pregnant from being raped by her ex-husband. She is held captive in a remote cabin in Northern Ontario to stop her from ending the pregnancy.
tenseclaustrophobicsomberdeliberateunsettlingharrowingintimateisolated
What happens
Catch and Release is a Canadian drama film, directed by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert and released in 2018. An adaptation of Jane Martin's theatrical play Keely and Du, the film stars Laurence Leboeuf as Keely, a woman who got pregnant from being raped by her ex-husband, but has been kidnapped by an extremist anti-abortion group and is being detained at a remote wilderness cabin in Northern Ontario to prevent her from aborting the pregnancy. The cast also includes Nancy Palk as Du, the guard watching Keely to prevent her from escaping, and Aidan Devine as Du's colleague Robert, as well as Peter Mooney and Michael James Regan in supporting roles. The film had its theatrical premiere at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival in September 2018 as Keely and Du, and was subsequently screened at other film festivals under the Catch and Release title. In an interview with the Toronto-based Muff film blog, Cardona and Colbert clarified their reasons for retitling the film, noting that the original title did not necessarily resonate with audiences as the play is not as well-remembered in the 2010s as it was in its prime, and instead they opted to play on the film's use of catch and release fishing as a metaphor. It was released to video-on-demand platforms in 2020 as Catch and Release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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