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(SOLVED) TV movie where a man and woman have kidnapped 2 young sisters and travel around in their car

posted 8 months ago by RustyShacklefurd (2026)
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I think I saw this on TV somewhere between 10-20 years ago. I saw what felt like about half the movie, from somewhere in the middle to the end of the movie. These 2 little girls were with this man and woman, who traveled all over in their car to outdoor country music concerts. Maybe it was a different genre of music, if my memory is wrong about this. It was some sort of kidnapping situation where law enforcement was looking for the man and woman. The mom of the 2 girls was also looking for them. I got the feeling that somehow she had lost custody for some reason and this man and woman were temporary foster parents who decided to kidnap the girls. Perhaps I’m mistaken about that. There was also a 3rd sister that the mom was reunited with in the middle of the movie.

The movie ends with the mom and law enforcement catching up with the man and woman, who are arrested. The older of the 2 kidnapped sisters doesn’t want to be reunited with the mom but the mom apologizes for her mistakes and convinces the daughter to re-accept her.

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[–] wositelec (295) 8 months ago

Maybe "The Nashville Grab" (TV Movie 1981) ?

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[–] RustyShacklefurd (2026) 8 months ago

Based on what IMDB says that can't be correct. IMDB says that movie's about 2 women kidnapping a man.

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[–] wositelec (295) 8 months ago

OK. What with "Tumbleweeds" (1999) ?

Other possibility is "Where are my children?" (1994)

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[–] RustyShacklefurd (2026) 8 months ago

I looked up both those movies and neither of them are correct. In Tumbleweeds there's only 1 daughter and no kidnapping. IMDB says that Where Are My Children takes place over 25 years, meaning the kids were adults by the end of the movie. The movie I'm looking for ended when the kidnapped sisters were still kids.

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[–] wositelec (295) 8 months ago

Are you sure?

Maybe "The Child Stealer" (1979) ?

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[–] RustyShacklefurd (2026) 8 months ago

This doesn't seem to be correct. The movie I'm looking for looked way too recent to be all the way from 1979 and the kidnappers were both a man and a woman rather than just a man.

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[–] wositelec (295) 8 months ago

OK. Other suggestion:
"Mamy Blue" (1999) - "A thriller-comedy about Lena, who loses her family in a tragic car accident and six years later sets out to recreate her family happiness by kidnapping two children and seduce a man, Torben."

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[–] RustyShacklefurd (2026) 8 months ago

I don't know if Mamy Blue is it because I can't find any other information about it. It has no Wikipedia page and there's no user reviews of it on IMDB. There's nothing from it on Youtube, not even a trailer.

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[–] wositelec (295) 8 months ago

And maybe "Desperate Hours: An Amber Alert" (2008) ? But there is one man again. I will be to search.

Perhaps it will be helpful:
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=daughter&ref_=kw_ref_yr&sort=num_votes,asc&mode=detail&page=1&title_type=tvMovie&release_date=1990%2C2016
or:
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie&release_date=1990-01-01,2015-12-31&genres=drama,thriller&keywords=kidnapping&sort=num_votes,asc

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[–] RustyShacklefurd (2026) 8 months ago

It couldn't be Desperate Hours. In the movie I'm looking for the kidnapped girls were little kids, the movie took place over the course of at least several months instead of just a few hours or a few days and it didn't have any actors that I recognized. Desperate Hours has Tom Berenger, who I would have easily recognized at the time I saw this on TV because by that point I had already seen Platoon on TV a zillion times.

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[–] wositelec (295) 8 months ago

And maybe "The People Next Door" (1996) ?

IMDB review (one from users) writes: "The central character is Anna Morse, the mother of three young daughters, who has recently left her violent husband and moved into a new house. At first it seems that her new next door neighbours Garret and Donna James are friendly and caring, but it quickly becomes clear that they are nothing of the sort. In fact, they are a couple of psychopaths who kidnap Anna's two youngest daughters and then disappear. The rest of the film deals with Anna's increasingly desperate attempts to find her missing children."

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[–] RustyShacklefurd (2026) 8 months ago

I looked up The People Next Door and this is definitely it. Thank you very much.

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