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Gardens of the Night

2008 · 1h 50m · R Crime, Drama
Directed by Damian Harris

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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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57%
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Rotten

Do these heartbreaking stories exist in the real world? Yes, yes, they do. Does dramatizing these stories with nothing to add except a certain cruel wallowing in the existence of unspeakable human depravity serve any real purpose? No, no, it does not.

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

Writer-director Jared Harris (and actor and son of the late Richard Harris) claims to have spent 10 years researching this sordid milieu, yet, for all the detail, it ends up playing like an especially lurid '80s TV movie.

Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh

Gardens of the Night is a harrowing story of kidnapping and forced child prostitution that conjures a world entirely populated by predators and prey.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh

Good acting and sincere direction by Damian Harris act as beacons to light the haunting corridors of an underworld spook house.

Rex Reed, New York Observer
Rotten

Ferociously queasy-making for its first half before flatlining into banality.

Stephen Garrett, Time Out New York

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