a sensitive theme. decent story. reasonable performances. and a touching story, more for the young actress work than for the effort of adoptive parents. politic, motherhood, an error of a teenager , a wise solution from parents and the fight for the child. sure, the critics are many about accuracy and credibility. important is the reasonable way to translate in images a drama so painful than it is obvious difficult to understand it if you are out of it. short, one of many films in Hallmark style. touching, dramatic, exploring appearances of a delicate theme in reasonable manner.

Taken Away is a Lifetime TV movie about a politician's daughter whose daughter was given away for adoption to avoid hurting his father's political career during an election year.Upon realizing that she needs her daughter to become a big part of her life,she starts to take some actions in order to recover her from her adoptive parents.It had a great promise to be a good TV movie.Too bad that the screenplay had to go through lots of contrivances and melodrama that the story became unrealistic as it was being told.The characters also lack coherence and consistency.The viewers will probably be confused in understanding them.Apparently,the characters involved simply had to undergo unexplained transformations and development in order to meet the needs of the story.Finally,the conclusion simply would not appeal the intelligent viewer as it simply went through the needed happy ending.

Throughout this movie, the dialogue was stilted, with a very shallow understanding of the real emotions involved. The adoptive parents were not portrayed accurately, but this is the fault of the writers, not the actors. The senator father was stereotypical.The plot was a bit far-fetched to begin with, and became more so as it went along.The college boyfriend kept urging her to fight for custody, even after she said the baby was with good parents.The acting was very good in the birth mother's emotional plea at the mediation hearing, but the adoptive mother's reaction was totally unrealistic. The "happily ever after" ending was just too much.

The only reason this movie gets a one is because the system won't accept a zero. This is a terrible movie. Do NOT waste your time. When it ended, my two even-tempered roommates and I were furious. The worst thing is that the girl gets the baby in the end when no system would ever allow such a thing. What she did was illegal! She stole the family's file and used it to track them down and visit them. She claimed to be someone she wasn't and made a mess of things. When it came down to it, she was not at all after what was best for her child and therefore should not have had the baby in the end. She should have been sued by the parents for stealing their private information. Again, worst movie ever made by Lifetime.