Synopsis
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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Cast
- Gillian JacobsLeslie
- John MalkovichMichael
- Ryan SimpkinsYoung Leslie
- Tom ArnoldAlex
- Kevin ZegersFrank
- Jermaine Scooter SmithYoung Donnie
- Harold PerrineauOrlando
- Jeremy SistoJimmy
- Raynold GideonJudge Feeney
- Cornelia GuestMrs. Feeney
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 50
Variety
Well-meaning but underachieving drama. - 50
The New York Times
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. - 40
Village Voice
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. - 38
New York Post
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.
