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Synopsis: After 9 years of horrific foster care, a young brother and sister find themselves on the street, with no one to depend on aside from one another.
Starring: Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich
Supporting actors: Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold, Kevin Zegers, Jermaine Scooter Smith, Harold Perrineau, Jeremy Sisto, Raynold Gideon, Cornelia Guest, Natalie May, Ben Lin, Alice Lo, Evan Ross, Landall Goolsby, Shontae Saldana, Max Van Ville, Kyle Gallner, Troy Ruptash, Shiloh Fernandez, Angel Lacy, Peta Wilson
Directed by: Damian Harris
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes
Release year: 2008
Studio: City Lights Pictures
MPAA Rating: Rated R for disturbing content involving sexual exploitation of a child, language, sexual content and some drug use.
ASIN: B0020EHE8A (Rental) and B0020EHEFI (Purchase)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #44,153 in Amazon Video On Demand (See Bestsellers in Amazon Video On Demand)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gardens of the Night, April 26, 2009
By P. Green (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gardens of the Night (DVD)
This movie was done very well. It opens your eyes to the adverse effect that young kids go through who are abducted from their family and friends. Children are not as tune to deception of people that they are easily persuaded by strangers to follow them. All parents should take the time and talk to their kids. Everyone is a stranger and be careful if it is someone you don't know that is trying to be nice to you.

All of the actors in this movie did an excellent job.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars great movie, but leaves questions unanswered, June 16, 2009
By Michael Hamel (Union City, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gardens of the Night (DVD)
I gave this movie 5 stars because of the phenomenal acting. You will cry when you watch it. It's the type of film that is very difficult to watch, but you can't stop watching it. The questions I have are: What happened to Alex and Frank and how did Leslie and Donnie get away from them? Does Leslie ever find Donnie? And it would have been nice to see Leslie and Donnie's lives as adults. Despite the lack of details, it was a great independent movie. I'm not sure it's worth buying, because you will most likely only watch it once.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Tough, not sure how else to summarize, March 21, 2009
This review is from: Gardens of the Night (DVD)
As a parent, I understand the importance of the content regarding children being kidnapped domestically and ending up lost in the sex/slave rings, but man this was a difficult watch. Even harder than Holly (also trailered on this DVD).

The story follows a young, upper-middle class girl (played incredibly by Ryan Simpkins, who coincidentally blew me away with her brief adult-style performance in Balls Out) as she is lured by a pedophile into an irreversible life of long term abuse and abandonment. The film flashes between her youth and later adult existence on the streets. No part of this topic is easy to watch, but everyone plays their roles adequately. Tom Arnold is absolutely scary as the pedophile, he was completely believable to the extreme.

The video and sound quality were fine, and the supplements cover the array of related topics. The deleted scenes were thankfully cut out (even more graphic), but it did show the obvious confusion towards the end of the film in the writing and editing. Malkovich and Sisto already had abbreviated parts, but as I was watching the end Michelle Rodriguez' part seemed strangely miscut, but then left in the deleted scenes, as were the alternate parent actors' roles. The credit listings supplement to help people learn about this topic were too "edgy" and distracting, it could have been made more straightforward and a great deal clearer.

An important awareness content film, hardly rewatchable, a few faults here and there, but the two performances of the main girl are worthy of acknowledgment.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Gardens of the Night - A Review
The movie was well done, although disturbing. Ryan Simpkins, Gillian Jacobs, Jermaine Scooter Smith, Kevin Zegers, and Tom Arnold were excellent in their various roles. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Glenn L. Millerd

5.0 out of 5 stars I want to believe that something like this isn't really happening...
...in this world, but it is. The acting in this movie is phenomenal all around, especially the kids. Read more
Published 4 months ago by S. Wu

5.0 out of 5 stars great movie
Gardens of the Night is a film that deals with the unfortunate circumstance involving a little girl going to school who happens to be the victim of a man who decides to kidnap... Read more
Published 4 months ago by B. E Jackson

5.0 out of 5 stars Had to comment after reading other reviews
Only my second time commenting on Amazon, but after unexpectedly turning on this movie, I just had to set the record straight on this very depressing yet impossible to look away... Read more
Published 4 months ago by young guns

4.0 out of 5 stars Wow.
This movie is a difficult but riveting watch. It's not often you find a movie that you can FEEL through the emotions of the actors, and even more rare to be sucked in by an... Read more
Published 5 months ago by J. Rodebaugh

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing "Night"
Saw this film recently on Showtime and it was based on the fact that John Malkovich was in it but unfortunately it is primarily a cameo of about 10 minutes of screen time. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Dennis W. Wong

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