Stolen (2010)It's a toss-up as to what's the worse sin in this graceless piece of tragedy porn: building a lurid drama around the fictional abduction and…2010-03-12PT87MINS.DramaJon HammJosh LucasIFC Films
It's a toss-up as to what's the worse sin
in this graceless piece of tragedy porn:
building a lurid drama around the fictional
abduction and death of two little boys
50 years apart, or encouraging viewers to
luxuriate in the handsomeness of the two
actors who play the boys' weeping and
wailing fathers in scenes of high phoniness.
In Stolen, Jon Hamm (not yet famous as Jon Hamm–
from–Mad Men when he signed on) is an
obsessed cop (he couldn't protect his
boy!) who ignores his grieving wife; Josh
Lucas gets to look good in a hat as 1950s
Sad Dad, a widowed working stiff. D–
Originally posted Mar 10, 2010Published in issue #1094 Mar 19, 2010Order article reprints