It looks like you all don’t know what it’s like being a parent. I will be in pain too if my biological daughter wants to stay with the family that kidnapped her. Will she still want to go back if her parents weren’t rich and if she didn’t had a nice childhood? Oo noo, she will blame the bio parents for not finding her sooner.

I cannot believe some of the comments on here with people blaming Janie/Jenny for not being gracious or wanting to be with her bio family. Seriously, did any of you even watch the movie or read the book? Yeah I get the bio parents wanting her back but you can't just expect her to come home and be your daughter again when she doesn't know you. Not to mention unlike many other unfortunate kids, she lived a good life with loving parents--who would want to give that up for strangers? Imagine you go your whole life believing you are one person and that your family that you live with/has raised you (with lots of love and not abused I might add) is yours, you have all your friends/boyfriend and then all the sudden SURPRISE! Turns out you were kidnapped, you're not who you think you are and your family is not your family and oh by the way your entire life is going to be uprooted and you're going to go live with these random strangers who though related to you by blood are not who you would consider family because you don't know them! How would you feel hmm? Bet you all wouldn't act so gracious if your entire life got uprooted like that and suddenly your whole identity gets thrown out the window. Nobody adapts to a situation like that that fast! How about you have some respect for the kidnapped girl who had no idea about all this and is being forced against her will to move in with people who are basically strangers to her and making her live a whole new life. She's scared, confused and rightfully so.

Man.. I really thought they’d show her spending time with both families & all of them coming together..

I haven’t seen this movie since I was a teen. I loved this movie. Thank you for posting it!!

This is basically the same plot as Deep End of the Ocean but different perspective. That movie is told through the parents who lost their child and this one through the abducted child. Both are incredible movies but Deep end of the ocean just hits that spot 😢

People say teenagers aren’t mature enough to deal with these situations. I think you don’t have to be a full grown adult to show empathy to others. She could have tried her best to get to know her biological parents, by sacrificing her own feelings of homesickness and still had a relationship with the parents that raised her. Why couldn’t she consider the suffering her parents endured and the consequences her siblings suffered because of her kidnapping. She was fortunate to have four loving and caring parents in the end why be selfish and hurt her own parents even one more day? It’s heartbreaking really 💔💔💔

They didn't ask her if she wanted to do this. They treated her like a chess piece.

Why r they living in a big house with 3 people for a house that could fit 5 or 6 people.

I love the Movie

Just a sick freak I never liked her u go through all that figuring out if ur kidnapped just to put ur real parents through hell to want to go back

She was so pathetic y cry about being kid just to go back to the family that took u

makes ya ever wonder does she ever get to learn how to drive (maybe should have end the real couple bougth her a sport car & she drove it home ,by herself cause never did say if those were her grandparents eighter

I fault the Mom for this because she depended on her older son to keep an eye on her, he pushed her down in the department store, she fell, and they left her; she should of monitored her children better...

In a case such as this, where the stolen child was not taken for the purpose of harm to him/her, it is a good lesson for birth parents to try to think of the person who has taken care of the child, whether it is the grandparents of the thief or the child stealer herself. The child still loves the one who brought him/her up and needs some access to her. Maybe after the person has served her sentence, visitation could be set up for her and the child, if the woman is deemed safe to be around and truly is repentant for her crime and her mental illness is being managed.

For a guy suffering from guilt Stephen sure likes to be a prick toward Jenny.

The Sands actions were so horrible. Janie hadn't seen them since she was 3 years old and they thought taking her to their house was getting her back. She didn't know them. The Sands took her away from everything and everyone she'd ever known and held her against her will. They kidnapped her again.

Great movie

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Really bad pirated version by hackers.

To the bio parents it was like losing her twice

it's not in her best interest to just send her back without getting to know them first. yes they are her parents legally and biologically and they want her back but they need to make it as easy for her as well. how about they visit her at first and then work things out. I would think at 16 she would have a say in what happens also.

how did they even enroll her without a birth certificate? and I am guessing that is why the parents don't want her to take drivers ed

Johnny Green I knew you were going to be a heartbreaker

O gosh , the memories and the missing carton picture posted would do it for me!

I absolutely love the main opening who wrote the theme to this wonderful movie?

I never read the book 📖 but I saw the 🎥

The brother comes off like a creepy, unhinged future incel 🤮 he really pisses me off

Omg call her JANEY!!! Her bio family is so disrespectful and dismissive of her life and identity.

I just wanna scream "Stop calling her Jenny!!!" I know it would be hard, but they should have understood and respected that she is her own person and her name and identity has been "Janey" for as long as she can remember.

That Hannah bitch is the one to be blame.

Interesting trivia This was directed by Waris Hussein, the original director of doctor who

Hang on At 16 isn't she able to legally choose where she lives so long as it's safe?

Ok for all the confused people. The Jessmonds did not know that Janie was kidnapped. Hannah was the Jessmonds daughter and she kidnapped Janie from the shoe store. The Sands were Janies biological parents. When Hannah showed up at her parents door with Janie it had been a few years since they saw her so they thought Janie was their granddaughter.

Her real parents should have taken legal action against the kidnappers.

Brain washing.frank and Miranda need to be in jail periodt. I don't know why people feel for Frank and Miranda. No one cares for the biological parents a crime has been committed and no arrest . Classic justice system

The one thing she asked for from the kidnappers her birth certificate. That they couldn't produce. She should be mad at the kidnappers.

Now she knows who has her baby pictures her real parents

Brain washing at it's finest.why aren't the kidnappers in jail.????? The justice system is so screwed up.

Oh my God I remember this movie I watched it back in school and tv before school I loved it and read the book it's very good

The easiest way to know for sure is DNA evidence. Where’s Maury when you need him for cases like this.

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Her brother was a bully, even in his older years. No wonder she went with the strange person.

This movie premiered on CBS in January/February 1995. It has been a favourite of mine for years.

It’s beautiful and very sad movie broke my heart for her Mom she live in agony for 17 years ,I can imagine when she have kids on her Owen she will know the love her family had for her , she will be spending more time with her siblings and there kid’s

The woman playing her real mother is the best actor in this whole crappy flick, lol. Even better than Edward Herrmann.

Wait. So there's a little red-haired girl missing. So "Janie" goes to scope out the Sands' house and...two red-haired kids get out. It shouldn't be shocking to her that the other Sands kids had red hair too, if the "missing girl" Jennifer had red hair. It doesn't make sense that it would lead to her figuring out her parents had lied.

Bobbi. Wright

Oh no the daughter who's opinion no one asked and who was forced to live with complete strangers with no contact from her former life isn't happy there?? How did we not see that coming?? - the Sands, probably

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