There was controversy over this movie, not for the storyline but for the fact of if its real its claimed to be based on real life events but trying to do research comes up with dead ends. Regardless of this the film was well executed.Jamie Chung plays Jae a young Korean-American in New Mexico in 1994. She obtains a fake ID for a night out with her friend. At the club she meets a handsome man who appears to be in uniform. Feeling safe she leaves with him but within minutes is abducted. Woken up in a warehouse full of beds and separate rooms in what looks to be a well looked after establishment but turns out to be a forced prostitution ring. Lead by a volatile crystal meth addict Vaughn the women are forced to go to bars, clubs and houses to work. A year has passed Jae is now called Eden and has realised the only way to escape is work with them. And of course perseverance pays off Eden is lucky and the final scene captures the movie of a phone call to her mother An underrated film on a very troubled issue in todays society

This film is one of the worst I have seen for a very, very long time! I saw another dreadful film just before this one but of the two this is worse! There is absolutely totally nothing good about this film and I don't mean that in a way! Gee what a surprise that a person that appeared in a reality television program and has no drama training from drama school whatsoever should get acting parts ahead of someone that actually has been to drama school! he fact that Jamie Chung has not been to acting school and done the full however many years it is training shows as she is completely wooden! The film itself doesn't make any sense. After being kidnapped the girls are all given kittens to look after. Why?!?! There is absolutely no reason for it and none is given! The girls are holed up in what looks like a prison corridor with their cells all along one side of it. The cells have a corrugated door that slides up and down like a garage door. There is nowhere for the cats to get out. As no litter trays, litter scooper or anything else that would be needed were given to the girls ....yes, you can see where this is going can't you?....what happened to all of the cats' urine and faeces! Then here are the numerous points in the film where she had ample opportunities and time to escape and go to the police but just didn't take up on any of them. Maybe she actually loved being a prostitute and actually loved this way of living but just didn't want to show it! Then there was this whole injecting the prostitutes with something that was supposed to make them compliant but the acting was so bad you never got the feeling that the prostitutes ever really were. Oh, and where were her parents and the police? Absolutely nowhere to be seen! It was as if the parents couldn't care and couldn't be bothered to even try and find her and so therefor hadn't even be bothered to contact the police over the fact that their daughter had gone missing! And because they couldn't be bothered or care the police did nothing! But then the should have been doing something anyway and they weren't! Surely some investigating would have started as to where and why two police officers have suddenly disappeared to after they had been killed in the desert by the corrupt sheriff in charge of the prostitution ring but nope nothing happened! That was pretty much it for the whole film....nothing happened!

THE ABDUCTION OF EDEN (dir. Megan Griffiths) The film is supposedly based on the true story of an American based prostitution ring run by a high- ranking police official. However, the film merely recycles the themes of lurid sexual fantasies and physical abuse found in the 'Women In Prison' sub-genre of exploitation films of the 1960's. THE ABDUCTION OF EDEN (this seems to be the title of the film at Netflix) is a competently made 'B-Movie' with a first rate cast that employs the 'damsel in distress' plot-line to emphasize the very real issue of human trafficking. If this film is actually based on a true incident, I would really like to find out where and when that it occurred. However, whether or not it really happened as portrayed in this film, it certainly makes for an engaging story.

As you've probably surmised, EDEN is not entirely "fun" to watch, but it's no more disturbing than it has to be. It's also rewarding in its revelation of an often-ignored problem in this country via a well-detailed and riveting story-line. Director Megan Griffiths did an outstanding job of treading a very thin line, making the film as tasteful as possible considering the subject matter--i.e., no gratuitous nudity--without sugar-coating the story. The level of empathy the audience attains with these poor girls is most acute. EDEN is quite convincing despite several stretches and unlikelihoods. While the plot of this film may appear predictable at first glance, there are some truly unexpected developments here.Though a bit larger-than-life in places, Jamie Chung is just hypnotic as victim-heroine "Eden." The script is similarly believable and carries a lot of weight in developing Eden and the other characters. The mistrustful alliance she builds with one of her abductors (well-played by Matt O'Leary) is as immediate as everything else in this film and is one of its realest aspects. The supporting cast who play characters we never get to know that well, particularly Tantoo Cardinal as "The Nurse," also contribute a great deal to EDEN's success.The "Behind the Scenes" Special Feature should not be missed after watching the film itself.