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2015
PG-13
Paramount Pictures
1 h 37 m

2015
PG-13
Paramount Pictures
1 h 37 m

Summary When Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) - on the run as the subject of a city wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son - takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren’s best-selling inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life. While reading alou...

Directed By: Jerry Jameson

Written By: Brian Bird, Ashley Smith, Stacy Mattingly, Reinhard Denke

2015
PG-13
Paramount Pictures
1 h 37 m

2015
PG-13
Paramount Pictures
1 h 37 m

Captive

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews

36

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings

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Summary When Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) - on the run as the subject of a city wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son - takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren’s best-selling inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life. While reading alou...

Directed By: Jerry Jameson

Written By: Brian Bird, Ashley Smith, Stacy Mattingly, Reinhard Denke

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews

11% Positive
2 Reviews

47% Mixed
9 Reviews

42% Negative
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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews

11% Positive
2 Reviews

47% Mixed
9 Reviews

42% Negative
8 Reviews

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Los Angeles Times

Sep 17, 2015

Oyelowo and Mara's riveting, embodied performances rise above the material.

By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Sep 17, 2015

Though much of the drama is clunky and flat, the taut, visceral performances by David Oyelowo and Kate Mara never err.

By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW

User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings

21% Positive
3 Ratings

50% Mixed
7 Ratings

29% Negative
4 Ratings

User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings

21% Positive
3 Ratings

50% Mixed
7 Ratings

29% Negative
4 Ratings

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Sep 22, 2015

Whatever power this piece of writing had over the two of them, Captive fails to capture the magic, hope or whatever made it a best seller.

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Sep 17, 2015

A credit-sequence television clip of Mr. Warren and the real Ms. Smith with Oprah Winfrey makes the entire movie feel like the strangest book infomercial in memory.

By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sep 17, 2015

Oyelowo and Mara achieve terrific chemistry. Perhaps they’ll work together again — in a better film.

By Calvin Wilson FULL REVIEW

Austin Chronicle

Sep 23, 2015

An odd mix, to be sure, but full-tilt performances from Mara, as meth-addicted, widowed mom-cum-kidnappee Ashley Smith, and Oyelowo, playing the stone-cold killer turned cornered kidnapper Brian Nichols, help this spiritual thriller rise (very slightly) above other, more hamfisted, heaven-friendly fare.

By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW

Sep 17, 2015

The film’s so inflated with moral importance that it becomes ridiculous, a Lifetime movie shoved into a cage and fattened with sermons and platitudes until it is ready to be served up cold and bland.

By James Rocchi FULL REVIEW

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Details

Production Company BN Films, 1019 Entertainment, Brightside Entertainment, Itaca Films, Yoruba Saxon Productions

Release Date Sep 18, 2015

Duration 1 h 37 m

Rating PG-13

Genres

Tagline Faith. Redemption. Survival.

Website https://www.facebook.com/CaptiveMovie?fref=ts

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Awards

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• 3 Nominations

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