Pitched at the risible level of Marco Kreuzpaintner's Trade, the film never quite recovers from writer-director Damian Harris's dithering way of shooting things.
Gardens of the Night
United Kingdom, United States · 2008
Rated R · 1h 50m
Director Damian Harris
Starring Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold
Genre Crime, Drama
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After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
The film gives vivid reality to those photos of disappeared children on milk cartons by letting us peek into the lives of two abducted children subjected to sexual abuse and then prostitution.
Tom Arnold plays the fatherly head of a child-prostitution ring and John Malkovich a sympathetic social worker - two clever casting twists that constitute the main interest in the grueling Gardens of the Night.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Recovery time is recommended after seeing Gardens of the Night, a harrowing, obliquely told story of kidnapping and forced child prostitution that conjures a world entirely populated by predators and prey.
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