Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie

2025

Drama / Thriller

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 148 148

family drama missing person neurodiversity suspenseful tense trucking community

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Kelly-Ruth Mercier Photo
Kelly-Ruth Mercier as 'Road Mama' Donna
Pam Kearns Photo
Pam Kearns as Vendor
Toby Hargrave Photo
Toby Hargrave as Sugar Bear
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Marci T. House as Madison
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791.77 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 9
1.43 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jjturley 6 / 10

A story about a kidnapping

This Lifetime movie "Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie" is about a young girl (played by Sierra Sidwell) who gets kidnapped at a truck stop. Her aunt (played by Garcelle Beauvais) goes on the hunt to track her down and save her. Both women are black.For the accompanying featurette, Garcelle Beauvais states that when black and brown people go missing, they don't get the same coverage in the media as white people do. I would say it's worse than that: When people of color go missing, there is NO COVERAGE AT ALL.There is a phenomenon known as "Missing White Woman Syndrome (MWWS)," which refers to the disproportionate news coverage of missing persons: If a young and attractive white woman disappears, the media goes into intense coverage overdrive, broadcasting interviews with family and friends, interviews with police, filmed dramatizations of the timeline of disappearance, and frequent updates with tips or possible new sightings. There is also a bevy of flattering photographs of the missing woman. Yes, we got the message loud and clear: The missing woman was young and pretty. How tragic that all other people who go missing are not given such coverage...But let's get back to this movie. It was enjoyable, with some suspenseful moments. (Since it's Lifetime, it's quite tame.) The story itself did not make me think of MWWS or anything related to racial injustice. It's just a plain story about a kidnapping, and while watching it, the victim's ethnicity feels irrelevant.
Reviewed by paul_m_haakonsen 4 / 10

Generic at best...

When I sat down to watch the 2025 thriller "Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie", I have to admit that I wasn't exactly harboring the biggest of expectations, as other similar movies such as the 2025 movie "Taken at a Basketball Game" and the 2023 movie "Black Girl Missing" weren't exactly phenomenal movies. But I still opted to give the movie a fair chance and the benefit of the doubt.Writers Francesca Gailes, Jacqueline Gailes and Germaine Hill put together a somewhat generic and bland script. It was pretty predictable, and you essentially knew the outcome of the movie right from the very beginning. And guess what, the writers didn't even throw the audience off the track once along the way throughout the course of the 86 minutes that the movie ran for.There was a single familiar face on the cast list for me, and that was leading actress Garcelle Beauvais. The acting performances in "Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie" were fair.Watchable, sure, but hardly a noteworthy movie. Nor a thriller that I would recommend anyone to rush out and track down in order to get to watch. And not a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time.My rating of directors Kailey Spear and Sam Spear's 2025 movie "Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie" lands on a four out of ten stars.
Reviewed by jjturley 6 / 10

This Lifetime movie "Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie" is about a young girl (played by Sierra Sidwell) who gets kidnapped at a truck stop. Her aunt (played by Garcelle Beauvais) goes on the hunt to track her down and save her. Both women are black.For the accompanying featurette, Garcelle Beauvais states that when black and brown people go missing, they don't get the same coverage in the media as white people do. I would say it's worse than that: When people of color go missing, there is NO COVERAGE AT ALL.There is a phenomenon known as "Missing White Woman Syndrome (MWWS)," which refers to the disproportionate news coverage of missing persons: If a young and attractive white woman disappears, the media goes into intense coverage overdrive, broadcasting interviews with family and friends, interviews with police, filmed dramatizations of the timeline of disappearance, and frequent updates with tips or possible new sightings. There is also a bevy of flattering photographs of the missing woman. Yes, we got the message loud and clear: The missing woman was young and pretty. How tragic that all other people who go missing are not given such coverage...But let's get back to this movie. It was enjoyable, with some suspenseful moments. (Since it's Lifetime, it's quite tame.) The story itself did not make me think of MWWS or anything related to racial injustice. It's just a plain story about a kidnapping, and while watching it, the victim's ethnicity feels irrelevant.
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