The Abduction Club
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Directed byStefan Schwartz
Written byRichard Crawford, Bill Britten
Produced byDavid Collins
StarringAlice Evans
Daniel Lapaine
Sophia Myles
Matthew Rhys
CinematographyHoward Atherton
Music byShaun Davey
Distributed byPathe Distribution (UK)
Release date
19 July 2002
Running time
96 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The Abduction Club is a 2002 British-Irish romantic comedy-drama adventure film directed by Stefan Schwartz.[1] Based loosely on real events, the plot centres on a group of outlaws who abduct women in order to marry them. It was written by Richard Crawford and Bill Britten.

Plot

In 18th century Ireland, there are two financially insecure young bachelors, Garrett Byrne and James Strang, whose exploits evolve from the need to secure wealth. Both are younger sons that will not inherit titles and estates so they become members of an infamous society known as the 'Abduction Club', whose main aim is to woo and then abduct wealthy heiresses in order to marry them (therefore providing themselves with financial security). The men decide to set their sights on the beautiful yet feisty Kennedy sisters, Catherine and Anne, but are unprepared for the negative reaction they are to receive, and they soon find themselves on the run across the Irish countryside (with the sisters in tow) from Anne's cold-hearted admirer, John Power, who does not take kindly to the news of their kidnapping, and with the help of the embittered Attorney General Lord Fermoy, implicates Byrne and Strang in the murder of a Redcoat soldier.

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References

  1. ^ "BBC One - The Abduction Club". BBC. Retrieved 17 March 2023.

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