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- Lifetime Television
- 1 h 39 m
- Lifetime Television
- 1 h 39 m
Summary A young woman, kidnapped when she was a child, returns home to the family she barely remembers and struggles to feel at home.
Directed By: Nikole Beckwith
Written By: Nikole Beckwith
- Lifetime Television
- 1 h 39 m
- Lifetime Television
- 1 h 39 m
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
47
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Summary A young woman, kidnapped when she was a child, returns home to the family she barely remembers and struggles to feel at home.
Directed By: Nikole Beckwith
Written By: Nikole Beckwith
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Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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100% Mixed
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The premise is ripped from the headlines; the treatment is delicate and astute. Then we take a turn. Stockholm, Pennsylvania veers into movie-of-the-week melodrama and never finds its way safely back to shore.
From its opening scene, the film feels desaturated and airless, as if the intrusion of energy or color might upset the characters’ delicate task of healing.
The filmmaker clearly has great skills and a knack for pulling strong performances out of actors. But the tone-deaf misjudgment of the film’s second half is catastrophic.
performances from Saoirse Ronan and Cynthia Nixon keep Stockholm, Pennsylvania intense and absorbing, but Nicole Beckwith's initial impulse to tell her confinement story as a stage play feels as if it might have been a sounder choice.
Beyond the logistics of the screenplay, Beckwith makes some stylistic choices that hinder the story's cinematic opportunities.
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