2018 · drama · tv-movie · crime
Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey
Directed by Jim Donovan1h 27m2018
On the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and is raped. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but when she returns home, no one believes her story except for one detective, who suspects she was abducted by a serial killer. Based on horrifying true events.
Our read: Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · tv-movie · crime entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
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- cold
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