| DIRECTOR: |
Terry O'Brien |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Terry O'Brien |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Christopher Ball |
| EDITION: |
Robert Benson |
| MUSIC: |
George Brasovan |
| CAST: |
Lisa Ryder, Randy Hughson,
Gary Farmer, Christopher Healy, James Gatto, Meghan Toll |
| PRODUCER: |
Terry O´Brien, Christopher
Ball, Bill Marks |
| PRODUCTION: |
Backroad Films Corporation
19480 McCowan Road
Mount Albert, Ontário L0G 1M0
Tel: 001 905 473-7300
Fax: 001 905 473-9171 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Backroad Films Corporation
19480 McCowan Road
Mount Albert, Ontário L0G 1M0
Tel: 001 905 473-7300
Fax: 001 905 473-9171 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Stolen Heart |
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Col., 86 min., 1997 |
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Terry O’Brien is a director and script writer. He has made several short
films, advertisements, and rock clips. In 1991, he directed Betrayal, a 24-minute drama
that came in third place in the competition of the American Motion Picture Society with a
special prize as the third best film at the Canadian International Annual Film Festival.
In 1986, he was director of photography and co-script writer for After The Argument,
winner of the CBS Telefest Award for best short dramatic film and of the Norman Jewison
Filmmaker Award. Stolen Heart is his first feature film.
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A comedy
of errors where a kidnapping acts as a means of settling accounts on the part of a woman,
with her past. All of the action takes place in a small city in Ontario where Joey, an
unemployed girl, assumes a drastic attitude to get money: she kidnaps the daughter of the
owner of a self-help clinic.She is assisted by two men but soon cheats on her accomplices
and escapes with her victim. Locked in a basement with the child, she develops an
unexpected relationship with her victim and reveals to her that she is her real mother.As
from then, Joey must convince the child she is telling the truth and defend herself from
the rage of her companions betrayed, and from her ex-husband who had sent her away twelve
years before. A policeman investigates the crime. He knows that nothing occurred by
accident and that all of them have their share of guilt.