Though ostensibly a movie about abduction, this elegant if rather empty drama is really a portrait of a marriage. Wealthy businessman Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford) is snatched at gunpoint by former employee Arnold Mack (Willem Dafoe) and frogmarched through dense forest to a designated clearing. While his regal wife Eileen (Helen Mirren) calls in the FBI, the parallel narratives show all three protagonists reflecting on their marital lives...
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