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- Release Date: 1996
- Runtime: 100 min
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Starring: Julia Ormond, Tim Roth, Keith Allen, Siobhan Redmond ... see all
- Director: Angela Pope
- Plot: A beautiful young dentist (Ormond) working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate (Roth) after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an... Read more
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| May 03, 1996Newsday
And had there been a bit more going on and a bit more making sense, "Captives" might have been an exemplary film.
In the end, though, Pope may have overdone the realism because, for all its atmospherics, "Captives" is a bit too much like incarceration for its own good.
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Variety
Captives" is no earth-shaker, but announces a director of promise, plus an actress of considerable presence in the assured Ormond.
Latter half of the pic, though OK, never quite fulfills the opening promise of an obsessive cross-tracks love story , and the thriller elements lack the sheer oomph needed to carry the viewer into different territory.
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eFilmCritic.com
This movie is intense, taut, honest, and bare.
Julia Ormond and Tim Roth are both extraordinary in this movie.
It's hard to say what might have been with lesser actors, but we, thankfully, never have to know.
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