Plot Summary
In this unpredictable and tightly-paced thriller, family man Marlon Villar—a longtime chauffeur to corrupt Filipino politician Manuel Chango—is faced with an unthinkable predicament when he gets ambushed while driving both his boss’s twelve year-old girl and his own daughter home from school one afternoon. In the chaos of the kidnapping attempt, things go horribly awry and Marlon’s daughter is taken and held for ransom instead. Desperate to save his daughter, Marlon must navigate the conflicting motives between the ruthless kidnappers, untrustworthy Chango and determined detectives eager to name him a suspect without letting on the wrong girl was taken hostage. As events progress wildly unaccording to plan, Marlon, Chango and their families are forced into a rapid downward spiral of deceit and betrayal that will leave no one innocent.
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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85%- Reviews Counted: 26
- Fresh: 22
- Rotten: 4
- Average Rating: 7.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: The sins of the fathers are visited upon their daughters in "Graceland," a tense and tough-minded family drama in which young girls are as likely to be victimized by plenty as by poverty.
Fresh: A potent combo of hostage thriller and high-impact morality play.
Fresh: A tense, twisty cinematic artichoke brimming with moral complexity and intriguing shades of gray.
Rotten: Writer-director Ron Morales just misses equilibrium in the visually arresting Filipino thriller Graceland.
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