Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story

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Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (2017)
Taken from Me, The Tiffany Rubin Story (2017) is based on a true story starring Taraji P. Henson. The movie starts by showing happy family members and friends laughing, talking, and enjoying their time together at a cook out.
The movie features a newly married woman, who has a six years old son Cody from a previous relationship. She has sole custody of Cody, but his father Jeff Lee has visiting rights for one week every summer. Jeff asks to take Cody on a trip to Disneyland in Florida, but he kidnaps him and takes him to South Korea.
The point of view of the main character Tiffany Rubin the antagonist is being a mother to Cody and seeking assistance from the South Korea Embassy, the FBI,
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Tiffany’s mother loves her and will not allow her to swallow in self- pity when it is difficult to get assistance from the authority to return Cody to their home. Her mother tells her to have courage and continue the process to get her son home from South Korea. The mother’s point of view is to encourage Tiffany to pray, accept help from the pastor and a church members and to travel to Korea to bring Cody home.
Tiffany learns that hiring private detectives to assist her is too expensive. Running out of options, she meets a man named Matt, whose business is locating missing children. Matt’s point of view is to assist Tiffany by providing advice, traveling to Korea with her, helping her locate Cody and to bring him home without being arrested for kidnapping.
Tiffany Rubin flies to South Korea with Matt to kidnap Cody from Jeff. They face a nightmarish struggle to rescue her son. The pacing for the movie is fast as Tiffany Rubin travels from agency to agency seeking assistance, and then to South Korea to kidnap Cody. They must rush the entire time they are looking for Cody, taking him away from the school where he has been enrolled by Jeff, travel to the American Embassy in South Korea before it closes, obtain a temporary passport for Cody, and board an airplane without being detected by the

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