Stolen by Their Father

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"I think we need to do what we can". Oh fo sho. That means getting a woman's daughters back from her despicable ex who's a wife beater and a jerk face manipulator. That also means traveling thousands of miles on a 14-hour flight (multiple times). Anyway 2022's Stolen by Their Father is my latest review. It's based on a true account or should I say, a righted memoir. "Stolen" is also cut from the cloth of Lifetime. Stolen by Their Father isn't Lifetime schlock or camp, it's rather about as old school as the long-running network can get. I mean even "Stolen's" grainy look harks back to the times of yesteryear, when Lifetime's 90s, glory days would abide. "Stolen's" globetrotting story takes the female protagonist from Anchorage, Alaska to Greece. Greece is where her two girls were kidnapped to. Stolen by Their Father is frustrating, enthralling, despairing, and high-flown without being flashy. Watching it, you sense a Midnight Express situation going on except that there's child carrying off as opposed to prison time for selling hash. "Stolen's" cast is solid especially the performance of one Sarah Drew (she plays the discomposed mother in Lizbeth Meredith). Without mugging to the camera and/or predominantly overacting, Drew dives into her role with a straight-faced discipline. I mean you can feel her nerve endings with every echt utterance. Drew's character also has a past of her own as she was abducted by her birth mother (from her father) at a young age. Stolen by Their Father uses those flashbacks, crisp editing, and a beginning flash-forward to lucid effect. With the absence of stuff like modish knock offs, double-crossing, and trash-lit mayhem, "Stolen" is still one of the most effective Lifetime flicks ever made. It rather "gives back" to the viewer in a truly prevalent way.

Not saying it was bad & although based on a true story,wasn't anything original either. I feel sympathy for the family this was based on,glad things turned out well.. That being said,feel another network could of presented it differently. Ok acting & actors chosen,plus decent cinematography. Is it something worth seeing,again? Unfortunately,no! But still worth checking out,even if once.

Lizbeth Meredith became quite the traveler, jet-setting from Anchorage, Alaska to Thessaloniki, Greece on multiple occasions. But the trips were not for pleasure. Rather, they were desperate attempts on the part of a mother to recover the children kidnapped by her craven ex-husband. As portrayed in the film, Greg Diakos was both a deadbeat dad and an abusive husband. He relied only on his macho charm and family connections to kidnap his two daughters, Marianthi and little Meredith. While in Greece, the little girls did not bathe and often missed school. On one occasion, Greg choked young Marianthi. As a parent, Greg was just as bad as the abusive mother of Lisbeth, whom we meet in several repellent flashback scenes. While in Thessaloniki, a corrupt judge was apparently on the take in making the decision to award the children to the father. The despicable judge even subjected the little girls to an interrogation. Out of fear, Meredith told the judge that she preferred to live with the father. Thankfully, the filmmakers did not recreate this frightful interview, but rolled the essence of the scene into expository dialogue. My favorite character was Tally, the kind assistant of Hector, the feckless attorney representing Lisbeth in Greece. Tally, Lisbeth's friend Ann, her boss Julia, and the women working at the shelter were all great support to Lisbeth. One of the most moving scenes was the one in which the women sacrificed their vacation time, so that Lisbeth could travel to Greece and still receive paychecks. It is shocking to contemplate the fact that this horror story was based on real events. The filmmakers were successful in raising awareness about the tragic dilemma of children kidnapped by a parent and taken to a foreign country.

Good movie!

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source: Stolen Hearts: The Lizbeth Meredith Story

Lizbeth Meredith became quite the traveler, jet-setting from Anchorage, Alaska to Thessaloniki, Greece on multiple occasions. But the trips were not for pleasure. Rather, they were desperate attempts on the part of a mother to recover the children kidnapped by her craven ex-husband. As portrayed in the film, Greg Diakos was both a deadbeat dad and an abusive husband. He relied only on his macho charm and family connections to kidnap his two daughters, Marianthi and little Meredith. While in Greece, the little girls did not bathe and often missed school. On one occasion, Greg choked young Marianthi. As a parent, Greg was just as bad as the abusive mother of Lisbeth, whom we meet in several repellent flashback scenes. While in Thessaloniki, a corrupt judge was apparently on the take in making the decision to award the children to the father. The despicable judge even subjected the little girls to an interrogation. Out of fear, Meredith told the judge that she preferred to live with the father. Thankfully, the filmmakers did not recreate this frightful interview, but rolled the essence of the scene into expository dialogue. My favorite character was Tally, the kind assistant of Hector, the feckless attorney representing Lisbeth in Greece. Tally, Lisbeth's friend Ann, her boss Julia, and the women working at the shelter were all great support to Lisbeth. One of the most moving scenes was the one in which the women sacrificed their vacation time, so that Lisbeth could travel to Greece and still receive paychecks. It is shocking to contemplate the fact that this horror story was based on real events. The filmmakers were successful in raising awareness about the tragic dilemma of children kidnapped by a parent and taken to a foreign country.

"I think we need to do what we can". Oh fo sho. That means getting a woman's daughters back from her despicable ex who's a wife beater and a jerk face manipulator. That also means traveling thousands of miles on a 14-hour flight (multiple times). Anyway 2022's Stolen by Their Father is my latest review. It's based on a true account or should I say, a righted memoir. "Stolen" is also cut from the cloth of Lifetime. Stolen by Their Father isn't Lifetime schlock or camp, it's rather about as old school as the long-running network can get. I mean even "Stolen's" grainy look harks back to the times of yesteryear, when Lifetime's 90s, glory days would abide. "Stolen's" globetrotting story takes the female protagonist from Anchorage, Alaska to Greece. Greece is where her two girls were kidnapped to. Stolen by Their Father is frustrating, enthralling, despairing, and high-flown without being flashy. Watching it, you sense a Midnight Express situation going on except that there's child carrying off as opposed to prison time for selling hash. "Stolen's" cast is solid especially the performance of one Sarah Drew (she plays the discomposed mother in Lizbeth Meredith). Without mugging to the camera and/or predominantly overacting, Drew dives into her role with a straight-faced discipline. I mean you can feel her nerve endings with every echt utterance. Drew's character also has a past of her own as she was abducted by her birth mother (from her father) at a young age. Stolen by Their Father uses those flashbacks, crisp editing, and a beginning flash-forward to lucid effect. With the absence of stuff like modish knock offs, double-crossing, and trash-lit mayhem, "Stolen" is still one of the most effective Lifetime flicks ever made. It rather "gives back" to the viewer in a truly prevalent way.

Not saying it was bad & although based on a true story,wasn't anything original either. I feel sympathy for the family this was based on,glad things turned out well.. That being said,feel another network could of presented it differently. Ok acting & actors chosen,plus decent cinematography. Is it something worth seeing,again? Unfortunately,no! But still worth checking out,even if once.