Abduction of innocence
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Katie Wright
brookemcqueen — 21 years ago(December 04, 2004 09:21 AM)
I saw Abduction of innocence, she was so good in it! The movie was exciting to watch too and made you wonder if she planned it or not. Has anyone else seen it?
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IMDBmurphy — 21 years ago(January 02, 2005 12:56 PM)
Well, I'm sure it was just made for you alone
Hint:
imdb.com/board/20942558/filmovote
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IMDBmurphy — 21 years ago(January 20, 2005 06:26 PM)
Never mind
To answer your question:
I
have seen it.
Twice.
And I am still not sure if she planned it or not as well! I think this is what makes this movie a little distinct from most of the other predictable TV stuff. Not to mention Katie Wright's convincing performance (as always) and her good looks
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khaosjr — 19 years ago(September 04, 2006 09:13 PM)
Personally, I think Katie did far more for ABDUCTION OF INNOCENCE than it did for her.
There's a lot that could have been done with this story, but wasn't. It would have been much better if the producers went further with Clare's father being suspicious of her, although her mother urges him to put those suspicions to rest. Something like this
When Clare is first arrested, Helen (her mom) forces Bob (her dad) to swear that he'll go straight to the police station and bail her outwithout questions or delaysand bring her straight home. Then, once Bob is there, he bumps into that creepy FBI agent who got Clare arrested to begin with. Bob has a talk with the agent about why Clare is suspected of masterminding her own abductionand returns home without his daughter. Then an outraged Helen telephones her brother and their parents (Clare's uncle and grandparents, respectively) and borrows the money needed to bail Clare out. Bob is astonished to find his daughter home so soon, and at first believes Helen dipped into his bank account. Her response: "Don't you EVER look at me like that again. We both know I would NEVER steal from youAnd neither would Clare, I might add."
Later, Bob meets with Clare's attorney (without Helen OR their daughter) and asks the guy to level with him: Did or did Clare not arrange her own kidnapping? Bob offers to pay the attorney's fee and then some, so he can bow out of Clare's caseand let a younger, less-experienced fellow who has less to lose (and who happens to be a real shyster) defend Clare for the rest of the trial. After all, Clare's lawyer has been in this game for years; he's great at what he does, he's got a fine reputation; he shouldn't have to risk his high standing by defending a client whom he knows is guilty. But the lawyer tells Bob he believes that Clare IS innocent, and tears up Bob's buy-me-off check.
Finally, after the trial has concluded, the creepy Fed who arrested Clare comes up to beg the Steves Family's pardonfor, among other things, turning Bob against his daughter. Clare says there's nothing to pardon; it's not the Fed's fault that she (Clare) was the most likely suspect. "You had a 50/50 chance of being right, so don't beat yourself up for this." Helen, on the other hand, is not so quick to forgive: "If she won't say it, I'll say it for both of us." With that, she decks the Fed with a solid right cross, right there in the courtroom. Even the judge pretends he didn't see it.
It also would have been better if Katie's character had evolved, or de-evolved, more over the course of the story. Something like this
After she's found by the river, abandoned by her kidnappers, Clare becomes increasingly reclusive and obsessed with her schoolworkeven though she's already a straight-A student. She astonishes her classmates by resigning from all her extra-curricular activitiesand by swearing off dancing, boys, et al.
In other words, Bob learns just what the true end result of his "golden cage" parenting will be: he was worried that Clare would make the wrong choices, so he made all her decisions for herand wound up controlling her, which made him a stranger to his own daughter.
Now, in the same manner, Clare becoming a stranger to everybody at schooland her own mother, who accuses Bob of turning their only child into a huge bore at home. When asked what's going on in her life, Clare answers truthfully: "Just school and studying." That is, aside from the parties she was invited to but declined, and from the guys at school she turned down for datesall so that she could study and/or do extra credit. Basically, Clare leaves her entire social life in the dust, so she can focus on her scholastics. She even skips Homecoming!
When Helen asks her to stay home from school and "just talk" with her, Clare's response is "What would my father say?" It doesn't help when Bob pops in at precisely that moment to ask why Clare is still home; doesn't she have classes today? Immediately, their daughter takes off for school; furious, Helen slams back into their mansion. Later, she lectures Clare that "Taking after your father is one thing; turning into him is something else."
Wait, it gets worse: after the trial 16d0has concluded, and Bob apologizes to Clare at home for doubting her, Clare asks him "What was wrong about it?" After all, it wouldn't have been wrong if one of her kidnappers hadn't confessed and led her lawyer to that tapewould it? Clare even tells her father that "If my daughter were arrested for something like this, I'm sure I would have made the same mistake that you did." Aghast, Bob gives Clare a hard slap across the face; Clearly blaming himself for her jaded attitude, he informs her that "I wanted you to be like me in some ways, but not in every way, and NEVER in THIS way." He also explains to her that no man will ever want to marry her, much less have a family with her, if she thinks and believes like this.
Soon after, Bob and Helen wind up disinheriting Clare except for a $12,