The read
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do. Most of the 3,273 2000s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently murdered children.
Ratings
IMDb5.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes4%
Metacritic17/100
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do.
322 audience votes
Key crew
- Christopher YoungOriginal Music Composer
- Clifford GreenScreenplay
- Chuck RussellDirector
- Ellen GreenScreenplay
- Thomas RickmanScreenplay
Cast
- Kim BasingerMaggie O'Connor
- Jimmy SmitsAgent John Travis
- Rufus SewellEric Stark
- Ian HolmReverend Grissom
- Angela BettisJenna
- Holliston ColemanCody
- Christina RicciCheri Post
- Lumi CavazosSister Rosa
- Michael GastonDet. Frank Bugatti
- Eugene LipinskiStuart
- Dimitra ArlissDahnya
- Anne BetancourtMaria
Stills
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Themes
sibling relationshipautismsatanismsubstitutedemon