***SPOILERS*** Not at all expecting too much I found myself fascinated in the movie "Abducted" in how it skillfully handed the very explosive story of the Patty Hearst kidnapping to the point where I almost believed it was more of a documentary, using newsreel footage, then a cheap exploitation flick.
In the film we see 19 year old newspaper heiress Patricia Prescott, Judith-Marie Bergan, kidnapped out of her collage dormitory room with her boyfriend Michael, Andrew Rohrer, brutally beaten up by her captors. As we and Patricia soon learn the kidnappers belong to this radical west coast organization that's doing its "thing" for, like most like-wise group of that kind, those less fortunate among us, unlike the rich and well connected Patricia Prescott, the downtrodden and exploited unwashed masses of the world!
Patricia is then subjected to a number of well planned brainwash sessions, including being raped by both male and female members of the group, that totally destroys her mind and will to fight back. In fact in no time at all Patricia starts to want to become a member of the very gang that had so viciously tortured and humiliated her! Patricia's parents Mr & Mrs. Prescott, Leif Erickson & Dorothy Malone, then go along with the group's demands to demolish a new high rise luxury building complex, the Park Towers Apartments, that Mr. Prescott is in control of. What outrages the radical group most of all is that the Park Towers Complex is being funded with taxpayers money who for the most part can't afford to rent there! It's not long after that the Prescott's daughter Patricia becomes a full fledged member of the radical group!
***SPOILER ALERT*** The movie "Abducted" follows the true story of the Patty Hearst kidnapping case pretty accurately until its shocking and totally unexpected final. And it's that, the films fictitious ending, that make it a cut above in what you would have expected it to be! It's that piece of fiction that in fact makes what was in real life an unbelievable and disturbing story that much more more disturbing!
In the film we see 19 year old newspaper heiress Patricia Prescott, Judith-Marie Bergan, kidnapped out of her collage dormitory room with her boyfriend Michael, Andrew Rohrer, brutally beaten up by her captors. As we and Patricia soon learn the kidnappers belong to this radical west coast organization that's doing its "thing" for, like most like-wise group of that kind, those less fortunate among us, unlike the rich and well connected Patricia Prescott, the downtrodden and exploited unwashed masses of the world!
Patricia is then subjected to a number of well planned brainwash sessions, including being raped by both male and female members of the group, that totally destroys her mind and will to fight back. In fact in no time at all Patricia starts to want to become a member of the very gang that had so viciously tortured and humiliated her! Patricia's parents Mr & Mrs. Prescott, Leif Erickson & Dorothy Malone, then go along with the group's demands to demolish a new high rise luxury building complex, the Park Towers Apartments, that Mr. Prescott is in control of. What outrages the radical group most of all is that the Park Towers Complex is being funded with taxpayers money who for the most part can't afford to rent there! It's not long after that the Prescott's daughter Patricia becomes a full fledged member of the radical group!
***SPOILER ALERT*** The movie "Abducted" follows the true story of the Patty Hearst kidnapping case pretty accurately until its shocking and totally unexpected final. And it's that, the films fictitious ending, that make it a cut above in what you would have expected it to be! It's that piece of fiction that in fact makes what was in real life an unbelievable and disturbing story that much more more disturbing!