"What would you have done?" is the lurking question that Prisoners quietly demands of you. It hits close to home, building a tense human drama that sinks into your gut with heavy dread. The film parks you at the precipice of moral ambiguity, and leaves you wondering how steep a fall you would take in order to recover a loved one.
In the film, a routine Thanksgiving dinner, replete with warm chatter and good friends, turns into a hysterical nightmare for two suburban families, the Dovers and the Birches, as their young daughters, Anna Dover and Joy Birch, disappear mysteriously f....