Taken Away (2014)

The Age of Commercialism

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

a sensitive theme. decent story. reasonable performances. and a touching story, more for the young actress work than for the effort of adoptive parents. politic, motherhood, an error of a teenager , a wise solution from parents and the fight for the child. sure, the critics are many about accuracy and credibility. important is the reasonable way to translate in images a drama so painful than it is obvious difficult to understand it if you are out of it. short, one of many films in Hallmark style. touching, dramatic, exploring appearances of a delicate theme in reasonable manner.

Taken Away is a Lifetime TV movie about a politician's rebellious daughter who was forced to give up her baby for adoption.It stars Chelsea Ricketts,Julie Warner,Lisa Sheridan,Jake Thomas and Michael Nouri.It was written and directed by Michael Feifer.A corrupt Senator from California,Senator Worthington is up for re- election.When she found out that her rebellious 17-year daughter Vicky got pregnant by drug dealer.Fearing that could hurt him politically,he decides to cover it up by giving the baby for adoption.A year later,Vicky is now a college student at Massachusetts.She meets a fellow college student Lucas and convinces her to take her baby back.Then she goes back to California and works for an adoption agency.After illegally getting the information on her baby's adoptive parents - Richard and Sarah Martin - and get to visit them,she find out that her baby is in good hands.But nevertheless,she still decides to take this battle into court and recover her baby back.For viewers,it may have resulted into insulting their intelligence presented a lot of confusion in it.Among them are characters involved particularly their emotions felt and what they are truly all about.Is Senator Worthington truly corrupt who cares only for his political career or a loving father that truly cares for Vicky? What about Sarah's feelings towards her adopted baby:will she fight for her towards till the end or not?Too bad there were a lot of unexplained changes and inconsistencies in the personalities of the characters involved.Aside from the characters,even the events of the screenplay presented a lot of uncertainty as well.How does Vicky get into one of the top schools of the country located in Massachusetts(probably Harvard)but has shown in early parts of the movie as being involved in a lot of crazy things like being in a relationship with a drug dealer or probably being into drugs as well?Many events during her pregnancy and her sudden change from being an irresponsible individual to becoming a mature College student lacks explanation.Added to that,a lot of the events lack logic and realism. And there's more.There were a lot of conveniences and contrivances made as the story progressed to make every character in it happy that an intelligent viewer would not believe them at all.Do I need to mention how it became cheesy and melodramatic as it heads towards the end?Ambivalence was definitely the thematic element of this TV movie.But if ambivalence was used as a story telling technique,then it has truly succeeded.

Taken Away is a Lifetime TV movie about a politician's daughter whose daughter was given away for adoption to avoid hurting his father's political career during an election year.Upon realizing that she needs her daughter to become a big part of her life,she starts to take some actions in order to recover her from her adoptive parents.It had a great promise to be a good TV movie.Too bad that the screenplay had to go through lots of contrivances and melodrama that the story became unrealistic as it was being told.The characters also lack coherence and consistency.The viewers will probably be confused in understanding them.Apparently,the characters involved simply had to undergo unexplained transformations and development in order to meet the needs of the story.Finally,the conclusion simply would not appeal the intelligent viewer as it simply went through the needed happy ending.

The only reason this movie gets a one is because the system won't accept a zero. This is a terrible movie. Do NOT waste your time. When it ended, my two even-tempered roommates and I were furious. The worst thing is that the girl gets the baby in the end when no system would ever allow such a thing. What she did was illegal! She stole the family's file and used it to track them down and visit them. She claimed to be someone she wasn't and made a mess of things. When it came down to it, she was not at all after what was best for her child and therefore should not have had the baby in the end. She should have been sued by the parents for stealing their private information. Again, worst movie ever made by Lifetime.