Eden (2012 film)
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| Directed by | Megan Griffiths |
| Produced by | Colin Harper Plank Jacob Mosler |
| Screenplay by | Richard B. Phillips Megan Griffiths |
| Story by | Richard B. Phillips Chong Kim |
| Starring |
Jamie Chung Matt O'Leary Beau Bridges |
| Music by | Jeramy Koepping Joshua Morrison Matthew Brown |
| Cinematography | Sean Porter |
| Edited by | Eric Frith |
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Production
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Centripetal Films
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| Distributed by |
Phase 4 Films Cinema Management Group (International Sales Agent) |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Eden (Abduction of Eden) is a 2012 American dramatic film about human trafficking. It was directed by Megan Griffiths, who co-wrote the screenplay with Richard B. Phillips and stars Jamie Chung, Matt O'Leary and Beau Bridges. The film was produced by Colin Harper Plank and Jacob Mosler through Plank's Centripetal Films production company. It was inspired by the story of Chong Kim, who claims that she was kidnapped and sold into a domestic human trafficking ring in the mid 1990s. It had its world premiere at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival.
In 2014, the non-profit organization Breaking Out claimed they had investigated Kim's story and concluded it was false and aimed to defraud charitable organizations.
Hyun Jae, or Jae for short, is an 18-year-old Korean-American girl living in New Mexico in 1994 with her immigrant parents, working at their taxidermy shop. After convincing her reluctant mother to let her stay out late on a Friday, she joins her friend Abbie at a local bar with a fake ID. Jae meets a good-looking young firefighter and accepts his offer to drive her home after Abbie vanishes. In the car, Jae notices there is a policeman costume in the backseat and that the firefighter badge is fake. Jae attempts to escape from the car but is caught. She is bound, gagged, and thrown into the trunk of a second car driven by a second man. The scene cuts to a U.S Marshal named Bob Gault who follows a tracking bracelet beacon to a scene where an officer with another man present is investigating the death of a young girl who is fitted with an ankle tracking bracelet in a ditch. Bob Gault questions the officer if he reported the girl, after the officer responds no, Bob shoots the officer as well as the other man.
Jae is taken to an isolated warehouse in the middle of the desert(presumably near Las Vegas, Nevada), where she is put in a makeshift hospital room , where she is sedated and a nurse forcible removes her braces and other belongings disposed of and is fitted with an ankle tracking bracelet. Jae meets Bob, who is the presumed leader of the organization that captured her and his overseer, the violently short-tempered and drug-addicted Vaughan who uses his connections to the government to obtain information on her and her family. After Bob confirms her suspicions that she is now part of a sex-trafficking ring, Gault christens her with a new name, Eden, after the trailer park where she used to live with her family, and tells her that any acts of trouble could end with the harm of her family. Bob tells her that she has a few days to accept this reality and, after that, she will start working for him. Living with many young girls from all parts of the world who are frequently picked out for “work,". Eden is forced to take pregnancy tests and given mystery injections by the organization's nurse along with all the other girls. Eden is first forced to star in an adult video with her bunk mate Priscilla where they are beaten in BDSM fashion causing Eden to have a breakdown where she is comforted by Priscilla. Later, Vaughan takes Eden to meet her first "private client," where she attempts to escape by injuring the client and running to a neighboring house for help. Vaughan quickly captures Eden and, after convincing the startled neighbors not to call police, takes her back to the warehouse, where she is punished by being forced to lie in a tub full of ice for several hours, while Vaughn is scolded by Bob for letting Eden escape as well as the girl Bob found in the ditch.
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