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Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

RealChristian14 Moira Kelly,the star of the 90's movies such as "The Cutting Edge","Chaplin" and "With Honors",stars in this child abduction TV movie entitled "Taken Back: Finding Haley".Amanda Tapping,David Cubitt and Kacey Rohl co-star in a movie that was directed by Mark Jean.Karen Turner was spending happy moment with her three-year-old daughter Haley in a carousel.Things were going well until the moment when Haley got abducted.This led Karen into a lot of emotional pain and sorrow that led her to be divorced by her husband Tim.More than a decade later,Karen remains in search for her daughter.Being a good photographer,she does take school memoirs photos to locate her daughter.One day,she thinks that one student happens to her missing daughter using maternal instinct while taking photos of Emma Roberts.Feeling that Emma is indeed her missing daughter,she tries to do some actions - both legal and illegal - to recover her.It was fantastic to see Moira Kelly give a great performance as Karen.Viewers will definitely cheer for her character to find her daughter again and feel for the pain and suffering that she has been experiencing since Haley got lost.Added to that,the twist of the screenplay provides the viewers the pain that a mothers has to go through once their child is lost either through death or abduction.Overall,this TV movie became above average because it was able to showcase that in addition to Moira's great performance.

Marian20 Moira Kelly is one of the very underrated actresses we have today.Too bad that she does not want to play within the system of Hollywood that made her somewhat unfamiliar today despite having great acting talent and the potential of becoming a Hollywood superstar.Nevertheless,it was still nice to see her once in a while in what could have been in this Lifetime Movie entitled,"Taken Back: Finding Haley".This TV movie is about a mother named Karen Turner.She was unfortunate that she lost her 3 year-old daughter Haley through child abduction during a carnival ride.This has affected her for so many years that she becomes mother obsessed and suffered psychologically for so many years that her husband divorced her and her career as a photographer suffered.After more than a decade,she still cannot get over the loss of her daughter that she still seeks for her by taking class pictures of High School students.Then she meets a mysterious student named Emma.Interesting things begin to happen after it.I must admit that Lifetime TV movies are not of the highest standards in terms of quality of stories.This meets within that standard considering that it had a lot of melodramatic moments especially during the first 1/3 when Karen was basically emotionally drained and when there were somewhat unrealistic moments especially involving Karen's own investigation about Emma.But what makes it different from the rest is the fact that Moira Kelly did great as a the mother obsessed of finding her lost daughter.She definitely made the viewers focus on her character and cheer for her quest that made them overlook the problems and imperfections that the screenplay has.In addition,other members of the cast like Amanda Tapping,who played Emma's stepmother; and Kacey Rohl,who played Emma deserve credit as well in terms of performance.Overall,I was just glad to see this TV movie especially when it features one of my favorite actresses in the 90's and star of The Cutting Edge in Moira Kelly.

Carol_R I watched this because of the actors in it, particularly Amanda Tapping. I expected a twist, something other than being completely predictable in a boring way. But there wasn't any twist. All the adult characters came off as irresponsible and not believable. It wasn't even a good treatment on the subject of child abduction compared to movies like "The Face on the Milk Carton." It also didn't give background on any of the major characters on what had happened to them in the last decade. It just plopped the characters on screen with no explanation as to why they were friends, why they had the jobs they did, etc. Not any real character development at all. And at the end of it, I liked the characters that the movie portrayed as bad, and couldn't stand the ones they portrayed as good. Moira Kelly I didn't think was believable in her role at all. All in all it was a waste of two hours of my time.

ivegonemod This is a stellar movie, and I do not understand the low rating at all. My mother and I loved it! The movie is about a girl named Hayle was kidnapped at three years old from a merry-go-round. Karen spends twelve years searching for her daughter, the father gives up after two years because he has a life to live.Karen eventually finds Hayley-Emma at a high school where she is taking photos for the high school yearbook.I don't want to give the whole thing away because this is such a powerful movie. I rooted for Karen the whole way and I cried with her. How could those people who took Hayley put a mother through that kind of grief after what they suffered?