This movie was not that bad. However, there was way too many buildup moments where you're just waiting for a crucial piece of information to be revealed... and then immediately afterwards there's another buildup moment. So instead of building up tension, it just leaves me feeling impatient.
13 Reviews
Not too bad as tv movies go.
kboreham-2473321 May 2021
The "time capsule" is two bunt cake tins. They didn't even bother to weld on some hinges. I literally made this account to whinge about this. Bloody lazy.
Some of the acting is good, some okay and some awful. Standard TV movie stuff. The directing and storyline are mediocre. Again standard TV movie stuff.
Some of the acting is good, some okay and some awful. Standard TV movie stuff. The directing and storyline are mediocre. Again standard TV movie stuff.
Story in there somewhere
jill-4063 May 2020
Boring
texxas-130 April 2020
This was so boring yet annoying. The girl doesn't speak for almost the entire film, she just walks around sulking with her head down like samara from the ring. The mother was annoying and the girl I didn't even care about. We discover the whole thing could have been avoided had the girl not stuck her nose into other people affairs.
B O R I N G
wildtxflowers7 January 2020
I'm not finished watching this movie as of this review but I am going to finish because I want to see if my theory is correct. However it is so stupid. The parents in this movie are especially annoying; I don't know if it's the character development or bad acting. It's infuriating that they're both idiots. I GET denial, wanting to be in control & wanting to protect a child but these characters UGH .. again STUPID. Even if the characters are pretending to be idiots it's still annoying.
Horrible
smaisleme-5189021 April 2020
Yawn
Rebekahjanel20 December 2020
Terrible
terribartolovich-0708317 May 2020
A must watch!
lcohe-3739619 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This movie so good, dont listen to the reviews. It was fantastic! Left me on the edge of my seat the whole time and then when I thought it was done, another plot twist happened!!
Spoiler: I thought it was Wade but then it turned out to be his wife and I was so shocked. But when we found out the agent was involved too....that's what made it go to a 10/10 for me!
Spoiler: I thought it was Wade but then it turned out to be his wife and I was so shocked. But when we found out the agent was involved too....that's what made it go to a 10/10 for me!
The worst acting ever
nigeljones-5316030 April 2020
Yikes
rachaelbatman21 December 2021
Left the most interesting bit out
copeland_39927 January 2023
When a child turns up 5 years later after going missing you really want to know what happened to her, where she was kept, how she was never found, how she got away, etc. But no, that is never disclosed.
The ongoing story was totally unbelievable. The parents were clueless as to how to make a child feel safe after such an ordeal and the acting was, as most have said, terrible.
Just leaves you wondering why you wasted time watching it when there is so much better out there. Bad as it was, I still wanted to know what happened in the end but given the circumstances even that was very disappointing.
The ongoing story was totally unbelievable. The parents were clueless as to how to make a child feel safe after such an ordeal and the acting was, as most have said, terrible.
Just leaves you wondering why you wasted time watching it when there is so much better out there. Bad as it was, I still wanted to know what happened in the end but given the circumstances even that was very disappointing.
A Fateful Knock on the Door
lavatch2 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
After five years of anguish when her daughter Katie went missing, Janet Sullivan hears a knock on the door thinking that it an obtrusive reporter. Instead, it is the long-lost Katie who has returned home. "Who Stole My Daughter?" (a.k.a., "Lost and Found") tells the gripping story of Katie's disappearance and her miraculous return.
The strength of the film lies in the details that add up to solving the mystery of the missing Katie. Some of those details are utterly mundane, such as the local Waterford Clam Diggers' decision to bury a time capsule outside the local elementary school.
It turns out the clam shell buried with childhood trinkets includes the evidence that clears up the mystery of Katie. Within that clam shell is a photo chip depicting a figure wearing a jacket with the emblem of Carson University. It is the detail of the university logo on the jacket that will be the clincher.
One of the film's most interesting characters is Roger Chase, a big, tough bruiser who appears to be the perp who abducted Katie. But appearances can be deceiving as the thug turned out to have a conscience. After his parents were murdered in their home in the Louisiana bayou, Roger made the decision to return Katie to her home in Waterford. There resulted the fateful knock on the door, and the rest was history.
One might object to the zombie-like character portrayal of Katie. At one point in the film, it was suggested that she was the victim of Stockholm Syndrome, acquired during the five-year period she was held in captivity. But it turns out that she was treated well by her captor. The trauma had to have come from the horrific incident she witnessed at school when the nice art teacher from Montreal, Miss Broussard, was intent on delivering a child fathered some someone wielding tremendous power.
While Katie is struggling to recover, her mother reminds her of a childhood game when she and Katie were battling monsters. Due to the strength of the mother-daughter bond, monsters do not stand a chance, due to the powers of love and the ability to peel away the layers on the Waterford Clam Diggers time capsule.
The strength of the film lies in the details that add up to solving the mystery of the missing Katie. Some of those details are utterly mundane, such as the local Waterford Clam Diggers' decision to bury a time capsule outside the local elementary school.
It turns out the clam shell buried with childhood trinkets includes the evidence that clears up the mystery of Katie. Within that clam shell is a photo chip depicting a figure wearing a jacket with the emblem of Carson University. It is the detail of the university logo on the jacket that will be the clincher.
One of the film's most interesting characters is Roger Chase, a big, tough bruiser who appears to be the perp who abducted Katie. But appearances can be deceiving as the thug turned out to have a conscience. After his parents were murdered in their home in the Louisiana bayou, Roger made the decision to return Katie to her home in Waterford. There resulted the fateful knock on the door, and the rest was history.
One might object to the zombie-like character portrayal of Katie. At one point in the film, it was suggested that she was the victim of Stockholm Syndrome, acquired during the five-year period she was held in captivity. But it turns out that she was treated well by her captor. The trauma had to have come from the horrific incident she witnessed at school when the nice art teacher from Montreal, Miss Broussard, was intent on delivering a child fathered some someone wielding tremendous power.
While Katie is struggling to recover, her mother reminds her of a childhood game when she and Katie were battling monsters. Due to the strength of the mother-daughter bond, monsters do not stand a chance, due to the powers of love and the ability to peel away the layers on the Waterford Clam Diggers time capsule.
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