Hopefully our man in New York Ben Umstead will find time in his busy schedule to go see this Brit thriller playing at Tribeca. Todd saw it at TIFF and made an outrageous claim that The Disappearance of Alice Creed director J Blakeson might very well be the next Danny Boyle. Huge acclaim from our lord and master on that one. James Dennis is also quite fond of it too. Soon it will be on our side of pone once again for a theatrical run and that means a newly cut trailer for our western eyes. Huzzah!
On a suburban street, two masked men seize a young woman. They bind and gag her and take her to an abandoned, soundproofed apartment. She is Alice Creed, daughter of a millionaire. Her kidnappers, the coldly efficient Vic and his younger accomplice Danny, have worked out a meticulous plan. But Alice is not going to play the perfect victim - he's not giving in without a fight. In a tense power-play of greed, duplicity and survival we discover that sometimes disappearances can be deceptive..."