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Dec 12, 2014 · The Captive may appear to bite off a little more than it can chew but it's one of the most satisfyingly baroque thrillers of the year, and thanks to a perfectly judged performance by Ryan Reynolds, it's quietly heartbreaking, too.
The guy in prison wants the lady dead. But she is kidnapped instead and put in a van because she was abducted on her 14th birthday! And what was up with the setting up Christmas trees.
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- How Many People Did Brian Nichols Murder?
- Did Ashley Smith Receive The Book from A Woman at Her Support Group Meeting?
- Did Brian Nichols Really Bound Ashley's Wrists Together with Tape?
- Did Ashley Really Think Brian Nichols Made Her Get Into The Bathtub to Kill her?
- How Long Did Brian Nichols Hold Ashley Smith Hostage?
- Did Brian Nichols Really Escape to See His Infant Son?
- Did Ashley Smith Really Give Brian Nichols Meth to Gain His Trust?
- Did Ashley Smith Really Have A Husband Who Died in A Fight?
- When Did Ashley Start Using Drugs?
- Did Ashley Smith Use Drugs The Day Before Brian Nichols Took Her Hostage?
Brian Nichols murdered four people on March 11, 2005. After overpowering Cynthia Hall, a sheriff's deputy who was guarding him at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Nichols struck her, stole her keys, and retrieved her gun from a lock box. The blow sent her into a coma (she survived). Some have argued that the stark contrast between the 51-ye...
No. Unlike the movie, the real Ashley Smith did not receive Rick Warren's book, The Purpose Driven Life, from a woman in her addiction recovery group. The Captive true story reveals that she picked up a free copy of the book on February 7, 2005 while attending her Aunt Kim's church. The church was planning to start a Purpose Driven Life study and w...
Yes, Like in the movie, Brian Nichols took Ashley into the bathroom. He taped her wrists together by wrapping masking tape around them. In real life, he also used an extension cord to tie her up and wrapped a curtain around her waist. "I was very scared then," Ashley told Matt Lauer during a 2005 Today Show interview. "I thought, he's gonna hurt me...
Yes. Like in the Captive movie, when Nichols told her to get into the bathtub, she feared it was because he planned on killing her where there would be less mess. -Full Circle Ashley Smith Interview
Brian Nichols held Ashley Smith hostage for seven hours. After murdering four people during and after his escape from the Fulton County Courthouse on the morning of March 11, 2005, Brian Nichols approached Ashley in Duluth, Georgia as she started to put the key in her apartment door at around 2:30 a.m., March 12. She was just getting back from buyi...
Yes, it is believed that this was the motive behind his rampage. Three days prior to escaping, the real Brian Nichols learned that his son had been born. Sonya Meredith, the mother of the baby, told The Associated Press, "I do know that he wanted to be with the baby. He did speak about it all the time." Unlike what is seen in the Captive movie, we ...
Yes. While she was bound with an extension cord and masking tape in her bathroom, her captor inquired as to whether she had any pot. She told him she didn't but that she had some ice (crystal meth) instead. He unbound her and she retrieved the crystals from a pouch that she kept hidden beneath the fold of her comforter. On the bathroom counter, she...
Yes. Daniel "Mack" Smith, Ashley's volatile first husband and the father of her daughter Paige, died in her arms in August of 2001 after being stabbed in the heart during a brawl with former friends. According to the Captive true story, the altercation took place outside the Applecross Apartments in Martinez, an Augusta, Georgia suburb. In Ashley's...
Ashley started using drugs in high school and then kept using them with her husband, Daniel "Mack" Smith. Following his death, her life fell into a downward spiral. She had been in a mental hospital and she failed out of a drug rehabilitation program twice. Her addiction became such a problem that she signed over custody of her daughter Paige to he...
Yes, Ashley says that she used drugs the night before Nichols took her hostage, reasoning that she needed a pick-me-up while moving into her new apartment. -Savannah Morning News
It’s milquetoast horror with a ton of wasted, dead air. Far more keen to show someone cooking breakfast and getting high than actually trying to entertain the viewer. Things do, eventually, explode in a climax of violence and poorly rendered CG blood.
- Scout Taylor-Compton
- Gregg Simon
The movie is primarily about the father, Matthew, never giving up, continuing to hold hope that his daughter was alive and he would find her. It is a bleak movie in many ways but we found it a worthwhile watch.
Sep 18, 2015 · This is the book that recovering meth addict Ashley Smith read to Brian Nichols, the fugitive who held her hostage in her apartment in 2005. Arrested on charges of rape, kidnapping and assault of his longtime girlfriend, Nichols had shot his way out of a courtroom, killing three people and severely injuring a fourth.
Sep 18, 2015 · Film Review: ‘Captive’ David Oyelowo and Kate Mara carry a true crime story with faith-based elements that works best as a two-hander. By Geoff Berkshire
