When his daughter vanishes from the street on Thanksgiving, a survivalist carpenter abducts the suspect police released and beats him in an abandoned building.

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When his daughter and her friend vanish from the street on Thanksgiving, a survivalist carpenter who has prepared for everything abducts the suspect police released and beats him for days in a derelict apartment block; but when the detective’s only other lead shoots himself in custody, he keeps swinging while the girls freeze somewhere unfound.

Film: Prisoners · Writer(s): Aaron Guzikowski · Director: Denis Villeneuve · Year: 2013