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JANE DOE
Released by Universal Home Entertainment. Available to rent.

Frantically paced runaround kidnap thriller made for USTV but out now to rent over here. The still sexy Teri Hatcher stars as the Jane Doe a Montana computer expert whose teenage son has been kidnapped by persons unknown. Jane works for Cy-Kor and the kidnappers want a top secret file from the company, there is a twist in that Jane’s ex-husband David (Rob Lowe) is now working for the Defense Intelligence Agency who are behind the kidnapping (they have discovered that Cy-Kor’s boss Avery (Mark Caven) is selling secrets to foreign powers. Jane learns that David has been using Michael to plant information on Jane’s computer allowing the DIA to spy on Cy-Kor.

If all this sounds very convoluted that’s because it is and with “more twists and turns than an English country lane” ™ you’re never quite sure what is going to happen next. That’s not always a bad thing of course but the best thing about the movie is Hatcher, Lowe is surprisingly lacklustre and their son Michel is just a teenage brat who needs a good dressing down.

Entertaining in a mindless sort of way but not a world changing movie that’s for sure, only extra is a very short trailer for the movie.