Gillian Jacobs
Leslie
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Plot. In Pennsylvania, eight-year-old Leslie Whitehead ( Ryan Simpkins) is kidnapped by Alex ( Tom Arnold) and Frank ( Kevin Zegers ). Alex says he needs help finding his dog, then he and Frank take her to school. While driving, Alex tells Leslie her dad is their boss, thus gaining her trust. After school, Alex and Frank find her again.
Nov 6, 2008 · Directed by Damian Harris. Drama. R. 1h 50m. By Stephen Holden. Nov. 6, 2008. Recovery time is recommended after seeing “Gardens of the Night,” a harrowing, obliquely told story of kidnapping ...
- Stephen Holden
- Damian Harris
Nov 21, 2008 · Gardens of the Night: Directed by Damian Harris. With Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold. After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
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- Drama
- Damian Harris
- 2008-11-21
Feb 10, 2008 · The truly sick thing here is how nice the villain is to the children. Alex (Tom Arnold in a performance of considerable nuance) and his much rougher partner Frank (Kevin Zegers) clearly spent time ...
Synopsis. At the age of eight, a young girl named Leslie (Gillian Jacobs) is kidnapped by Alex (Tom Arnold), and Frank (Kevin Zegers). Alex tricks her into helping him find his dog Trixie, then takes her to school; during the ride, he pretends that her father is his boss, thus earning her trust. After school, Alex and Frank find her again; they ...
Nov 3, 2008 · November 3, 2008. There’s a certain lurid fascination at play in Gardens of the Night, Damian Harris’s fictional account of the abduction and sexual abuse of an eight-year-old girl. Ostensibly an exposé of the very real problem of sex slavery and its lifelong consequences for its victims, the film, despite Harris’s tasteful elisions of ...
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Nov 6, 2008 · The film tells the story of Leslie (Ryan Simpkins), an innocent 8-year-old girl abducted by two men, played by Tom Arnold and Kevin Zeggers (Transamerica) and inducted into a child pornography ...
