Snatched (2017 film)

Snatched is a 2017 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Levine and written by Katie Dippold.

The film stars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn (in her first film since 2002's The Banger Sisters), with Joan Cusack, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes, and Christopher Meloni in supporting roles, and follows a mother and daughter who are abducted while on vacation in South America.

[3] Recently fired from her job and dumped by her rock musician boyfriend, Emily Middleton is determined to enjoy a previously planned non-refundable trip to Ecuador.

Learning of her relationship status from social media, her mother, Linda, tells her to come home in order to move on, where she reunites with her agoraphobic brother, Jeffrey.

During their ride, a white van rams James' Jeep and the masked men abduct Emily and Linda.

Emily awakens inside a cell and begins to panic, while Linda tries to calm herself by reading men's magazines.

Morgado is about to kill them both as revenge for his only nephew's death, but Linda distracts him while Emily retrieves a nearby spear gun with which to threaten him.

Determined to find her mother, she seeks help from two feisty American women veterans, Ruth and Barb, whom Emily met at the resort in Ecuador.

U.S. State Department agents arrive to arrest Morgado, and Jeffrey reunites with his mother and sister.

[5] By February 2016, Goldie Hawn was in talks to play Schumer's mother, in her first film role since 2002's The Banger Sisters.

[6] In May 2016, Christopher Meloni, Ike Barinholtz, Óscar Jaenada and Wanda Sykes were added to the cast.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Snatched has a pair of terrifically talented stars, but their presence isn't enough to compensate for this rote comedy's threadbare plot and scattershot laughs.

[15] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "The tantalizing enticement of Goldie Hawn pairing with Amy Schumer for a mother-daughter, road-trip buddy comedy has some moments, but never fulfills its promise.