Abducted in Plain Sight (2017) Reviews

• Incredible, But Not In A Good Way

  clintstevens2019-01-21

  Halfway through this documentary I was convinced it was one of those phony 'mocumentarys'. I still can't wrap my mind around how naive...no, gullible some people can be. My mouth was agape throughout the entire film. I have so many questions there are no answers for. How can reasonably intelligent parents allow their 12 year old daughter to have 'sleep-overs' with a 40 year old man? How can they BOTH be lured into a sexual relationship with the same man? How can a normal girl believe she has been chosen by extraterrestrial aliens to save their species by having a child with this same man? How can the FBI be so ineffective? How can a powerful church apparently have knowledge of this man's past history and continue to allow it to happen? How can parents permit their daughter to continue to see a man like this, even after he had kidnapped her a first time? How can they be OK with him spending the night 3 or 4 times a week in their home, in their daughter's bed AFTER he had kidnapped her. How can a man sit on camera and calmly say his brother was a pedophile but was also a great car salesman? The saying 'You can't make this stuff up' applies tenfold to this tale. You will watch this film, shaking your head and wondering how some people are allowed to procreate. I'm still shaking my head.

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• What did I just watch

  sophie9102019-01-19

  I have never seen such gullible people in my life! And the way the mum still smiles about how she felt about how made her feel after they started their affair was truly shocking!!!

• Content vs Quality

  kroniskvaffel2019-02-15

  These parents are among the most naive people on earth, but to give a low rating because you disagree with the content is strange. It's like saying Titanic is a terrible movie because the boat sank.

• Fascinating and Disturbing

  julielange-may2019-01-20

  As a documentary this held my interest from start to finish. I'm a little surprised that folks would rate it low due to the disturbing content which I found to be honestly and painfully presented in first person by family members. I think it's absolutely credible to present the unbelievable effort that some of these predators make on a long term planning level to entrap their prey. I would have liked to see inclusion of the predator's wife and family but I suspect they are too ashamed even now to come out publicly. In my opinion, Berchtold's wife should have been prosecuted as an accessory to have colluded to keep her husband out of jail and to have turned a blind eye to his activity. I'm glad to have viewed this. I only ran into one person while my daughter was growing up who seemed far too interested in spending his time with pre-adolescent girls. I watched this person like a hawk until my daughter was too old to be of any interest. She also had a gut sense to avoid interaction but not all children are born with that. So I say buckle up, be incredulous about what happened but watch. Don't rate this low because it exposes stupidity. Kudos to Jan's family for sharing what some might take to the grave.

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• I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

  SpacemanBob2019-01-20

  The story of an abduction or two. Involves a monster, a con artist, a master manipulator, naive parents, and a little girl. If this were fiction I'd have called it far fetched, but this is all too real. It's disturbing, shocking, maddening, and somehow strangely close to physically painful to watch. A well made film, the story moves quickly, there's no filler by any means.

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