The 2001 kidnap of American teen Anne Sluti is re-enacted in this lacklustre crime thriller. But despite being based on a true story, there's nothing about the film that feels real. Instead of fully formed performances, leads James Van Der Beek and Sara Canning deliver unconvincing movie clichés - he's all shouty and frowning as the fugitive abductor, Tony Zappa; she's wide-eyed and listless as his victim. With such lazy characterisation, the events of the six-day ordeal have little tension or emotional impact, particularly when reductive scripting skates over the pair's increasingly complex relationship that crucially allowed quick-thinking Sluti to manipulate Zappa. The plodding police procedural element of the film compounds this flat atmosphere, leaving it to the foreboding soundtrack to generate interest and unease.

Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her captor, engineering her own rescue and negotiating her safe release after 6 days of hell.