“Abduction Runs In The Family” (** out of four) was a hollow suspense thriller about a successful author (Charlotte Hare) who survived an abduction when she was younger; when her own daughter (Jessica Morris) is suddenly abducted and her former kidnapper (James Hyde) is released from prison, she finds she must turn back to him for help in finding her daughter and simultaneously settling her own personal and psychological demons from the past. Potentially intriguing material is smoothly and efficiently made but end result is pretty ordinary and predictable. You can only imagine what David Cronenberg or David Lynch might have done with rich psychodrama material like this.

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