This week in movies you missed: If you found this 2012 thriller randomly on Netflix Instant, you’d probably assume it was a standard vehicle for Jessica Biel. You’d be wrong: The Tall Man isn’t standard anything.
What You Missed
One by one, children have been disappearing from the dying Washington mining town of Cold Rock. Eighteen are gone so far, and police have no leads. For the townspeople, the abductor has become a quasi-mythical figure: the “Tall Man.”
Biel plays nurse Julia Denning, who staffs Cold Rock’s rudimentary health clinic. When a woman comes in with her teenage daughter — pregnant by her mother’s boyfriend and about to give birth — Julia does what she can for them. She coaxes the teen’s selectively mute sister (Jodelle Ferland) to talk.
Julia does her best for her small child at home, too, sheltering him from the realities of life in Cold Rock. Then, one night, a black-dressed abductor appears on her doorstep.
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