Maggie Grace
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Taken (2008)

Fast moving thriller about a father finding his daughter that was sold into the sex trade.

Suspenseful, with a happy ending, though less happy than one would expect.

It takes a special man to shoot a man’s wife in front of him to make his point.

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Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Secret Service to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanese gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him “good luck,” so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

You know that loud table of women you find in coffee houses that all talk at the same time and agree, but agree loudly and then one of them disagrees and the table falls silent. Often they have a child in a stroller with them if you run into this group in Park Slope, but if you are lucky they don’t.

That was sort of the feeling I got from the Jane Austen Book Club. Lots of great but loud women talking about a specific subject. This time they have a guy in the mix who they seem for the most part to be amused by when they are talking about the books.

Enjoyable movie. Follows the Jane Austen school of love – men can be redeemed, love can happen for anyone that lets it.

But beware, quite a chick flick. I think one of our fixed male cats was worried he might start lactating after watching the film.

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Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen, only to find their relationships — both old and new — begin to resemble 21st century versions of her novels.

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