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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   7,091 votes
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Creator:
Leslie Bohem
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Contact:
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Seasons:
1 full episode list
Release Date:
2 December 2002 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Three families. Four generations. Fifty years of secrets. more
Plot:
Taken spans five decades and four generations, centering on three families: the Keys, Crawfords, and Clarkes... more
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 7 wins & 18 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(21 articles)
Weekly TV Wrap Up - May 28th, 2009
 (From Screen Rant. 28 May 2009, 7:38 AM, PDT)

New 'V' Full Length Trailer
 (From CinemaSpy. 21 May 2009, 9:30 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
Overall a very good thing. Many great sequences. Little kid Dakota Fanning was astoundingly brilliant! more

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 6 of 83)

Dakota Fanning ... Allie Keys (10 episodes, 2002)
Matt Frewer ... Dr. Chet Wakeman (6 episodes, 2002)

Heather Donahue ... Mary Crawford - Adult (5 episodes, 2002)

Emily Bergl ... Lisa Clarke - Adult (5 episodes, 2002)
Adam Kaufman ... Charlie Keys - Adult (5 episodes, 2002)

Camille Sullivan ... Nina Toth - Adult / ... (5 episodes, 2002)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Steven Spielberg Presents Taken" (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
877 min (10 parts) | Finland:842 min (DVD)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Germany:12 (cut tv version) | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:M

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Trivia:
The WW2 bombing sequence in episode one was created using NewTek's "Lightwave 3D". The image of Germany was actually a spy photo taken from WW2. more
Goofs:
Continuity: At the end of "Maintenance", the last day shown is November 8th, 1980. When that date first appears on the screen, it is daylight. Then we see Eric waiting for Becky to get out of her house (in order to live with her to Maine), it is then night time. When she doesn't go out he decides to hit the road back to his military base and finish packing up. When he enters the base, it is daylight again. However, when he finally takes off to Maine, while he is on the road, it is night time again and the date shown is still November 8th, 1980. It should be November 9th (or later) since at least one day and a half separates the scene when that date first appeared and the last scene it appears in. more
Quotes:
Allison Clarke: The hardest thing you'll ever learn is how to say goodbye. more
Movie Connections:
References "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979) more

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13 out of 20 people found the following comment useful:-
Overall a very good thing. Many great sequences. Little kid Dakota Fanning was astoundingly brilliant!, 14 December 2002
9/10
Author: bopdog from Cardiff, Wales

There is more than one dimension upon which "Taken" must be judged. It's a movie, a TV mini-series, a large collection of "theatrical moments," it's somewhat of a social/political commentary, it's a diary for all the old (and young) hippies, and it's a "message" flick about possible new frontiers, etc. It's all of those things at once. It performs differently on all of those dimensions.

Without boring the reader with my opinions regarding each dimension, permit me to summarize by merely saying that yes, it is great in places, it works very well in others. It is a bit "TV-y" and trite on a small few. Also, the ending smacked of a corporate-marketing mentality. It almost said, "Stay tuned for a thin and overly drawn-out clunker of a TV series and/or series of never-as-good-as-the-original and frustratingly exploitative and hideous sequels." I really hope I'm not right about that--- but sadly, I fear that I am.

Overall, though, "Taken" it is a very good thing. Watch it, dig it, enjoy it! Oh--- and what's the deal with the little girl who played Allie? Dakota Fanning was her name? Wow! She was cute and perky, all right. But dang--- she went WAY beyond cute clear through to amazing. What a major find that little actor is! Think about it--- the producers needed a kid who could embody a cosmic wisdom that transcended all the earthly adults, AND still have the "little kid" vulnerability and cuteness of a real child. Fanning was a marvel at accomplishing all of those things at once.

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