TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

priscprsc Seriously? If I had to watch this again to save the world, goodbye world! There was nothing to the wooden characters and the story line was silly. The wife was cute, that was the plus.

dirtyrichrara Do yourself a favor...watch this movie! Josh Lucas, John Hamm, and James Van Byke all give wonderfully superb performances in this dual plot story. The story of 2 fathers in different eras with the same issue, searching for his missing son is woven to perfection. An extremely pressing and reoccurring theme set the base for a beautifully sad story that occurs so often in so many places. The scripting was wonderful and the settings are so natural and not overpowering as many Hollywood films are. I'd kept this on my netflix queue for so long, I started to watch it three times before I fully committed. I was sorry I'd postponed it so long. Such a beautiful film with stellar performances. Watch watch!

Rodrigo Amaro A detective (Jon Hamm) obsessed with the mysterious disappearance of his son goes deep into another obsession while investigating a similar case that took place in 1958 and despite the gap in between both cases they are connected. "Stolen Lives" divides itself in two segments (one in 1958, the other in 2008) on a same crusade which is to present two fathers trying to find their missing child and how they react to this happening in their shattered lives.There isn't much to be said about the film. It's pretty decent, with a quality cast that includes names like Hamm, Josh Lucas, Jessica Chastain, James Van Der Beek, Rhona Mitra, Jimmy Bennett and Joanna Cassidy, it doesn't disappoint. It portrays with justice the drama of parents who go or went through the same drama as the main characters here, the kind of agony no one wants to live with. Annoys me the fact of this being commercialized as a thriller when it's not that much. Sure, there's some suspense (very little, actually), the whole investigation and the search for the kids but it's more a dramatic work than a thriller (it doesn't work as such since it reveals things that should be left to the ending). The segments were presented in a good way, but one (Lucas) becomes more interesting than the other (Hamm), which created some strange unbalance that might ruin the film to some viewers. Admirable even without any news in its plot or presentation, it's worthy of a check out, at least for the cast. 7/10

charlytully Chollies' Diner is the BRIGADOON of eateries. Located beyond the fringes of "Barnstable" town, it apparently pops up--unchanged, standing in the middle of nowhere--once every century (OR, whenever a child predator is nearby, whichever comes first). Blessed with an inexhaustible supply of tin whistles inscribed "keep the home fires burning" for distribution to prospective young murderees, this diner from hell is shown from 1958 to 2000 within the confines of STOLEN's story. Despite this whodunit's title, only the whistles turn out to be stolen: the kids are dispatched ASAP and promptly land-filled by their twisted killer. Though the story is nonlinear and somewhat hard to follow, the power of the acting performances and the lack of gratuitous torture porn make this a worthwhile diversion. Josh Lucas (Matthew) is especially haunting as a hard-pressed father of three facing bad luck and ill will from his fellow man at nearly every turn during the story's flashbacks to 1958. Morena Baccarin is striking as a femme fatale, and Jimmy Bennett is convincing as Matthew's differently-abled son, John. This is a movie for people who don't mind being surprised by turns in the plot.