Who kidnapped Anna Joy?

As we find out at the end of Prisoners, Holly was the one who kidnapped Joy and Anna.
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Who kidnapped Anna in Prisoners?

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Holly Jones (Melissa Leo) kidnapped the two little girls. LONG VERSION: Holly and her husband were religious zealots until their young son died of cancer.
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Who took Anna and joy in Prisoners?

Even with her husband gone, Holly doesn't stop and abducts Joy Birch and Anna Dover. Though she is not suspected by the police, Alex is, as the girls were seen playing around his RV before the capture. Alex is taken into custody, but is quickly released due to his IQ being the same as a ten year old.
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Who took Keller's daughter?

As Joy wakes up, Keller asks what happened to Anna and where were they held at. Joy says that Keller was there. Knowing that their kidnapper is Holly Jones, Keller heads on over to her house to confront her. At the house, Keller demands Holly where she kept the girls.
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What did Keller do to Alex?

Keller kidnapped Alex at gunpoint and tied him up in his old apartment building. With Franklin's help, he kept beating Alex into telling him where Anna and Joy were but he still wouldn't budge. Five days after Anna and Joy were kidnapped, Franklin told his wife Nancy what Keller did.
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Was Mr Dover found in Prisoners?

The ending was purposely left ambiguous. There was an original ending where Loki moves the car and finds Keller but the filmmakers changed it on purpose and the studio ultimately left it as is. The ending does show that Loki hears the whistle, but we don't see him actually find Keller.
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Why did Alex choke the dog in Prisoners?

But the same casual way he decided to choke the dog, he probably decided to bring the girls back to Holly. This can be the complicated nature of someone who has been hurt as substantially as Alex has been hurt.
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Is Prisoners based on a true story?

Production. Aaron Guzikowski wrote the script based on a short story he wrote, involving "a father whose kid was struck by a hit-and-run driver and then puts this guy in a well in his backyard". That short story was partially inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".
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What did the maze mean in Prisoners?

In actual mind control, mazes are an important trigger image that accurately represents a slave's mind state. “Maze maps” are programmed into the victim's internal world to keep them from accessing their core/true personality.
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Is Barry Alex in Prisoners?

So in the end of Prisoners, the 2013 movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman, it turns out that Alex Jones is actually Barry, an abducted child missing for over 20 years.
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Did Keller survive in Prisoners?

Keller is alive and is blowing his daughter's red whistle for help. Loki hears it and shrugs it off, but as the whistle's sound amplifies, Loki realizes something is off, and then the camera cuts to black. The End.
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What happened at the end of the movie Prisoners?

After its multiple plot twists, Prisoners' original ending concludes the story with Dover confronting Alex's "mother," Holly, who, in turn, shoots him in the leg and forces him into the pit. The movie's final scene depicts Loki standing about as workers wrap up excavation work on Jones' property.
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What happens to Alex at the end of Prisoners?

At the end, Alex is reunited with his family after 26 years, and Kellar is left calling for help, blowing the missing whistle that Anna and Joy went off to find in the first place. That whistle set in motion the plot of "Prisoners," so it's fitting that it brings the movie to a close.
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How did Joy escape in Prisoners?

Later, the girls somehow managed to make a run for it from the house - but only Joy succeeds in getting away. The flashback shows Joy running through some woods and then arriving at the edge of a freeway, where presumably she was rescued by passers-by. Shiz Z.
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Who was the guy in the basement prisoners?

Pursuing other leads, Loki discovers a corpse in the basement of Patrick Dunn, a priest. Dunn admits that he killed the man because the man confessed he was "waging a war against God" and had killed 16 children and said that he would kill more.
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When did Long Kesh become the maze?

1972 was also witness to the renaming of the site as Maze Prison, although prisoners continued to refer to 'Long Kesh'. Following the end of the policy of internment in December 1975, the cages/ compounds continued to be used for prisoners.
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What are the H blocks?

Her Majesty's Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as The Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house alleged paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from mid-1971 to mid-2000.
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Does Jake Gyllenhaal tics?

"The tics and those physical manifestations, that happened in my mind as I was reading it. Just before I made this movie, I was on stage in New York City playing a character who talked a lot, and had a lot of sort of nervous energy," Jake recently shared to The Wrap about his hit film Prisoners.
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What do the snakes mean in Prisoners?

The snakes and the mazes: The killer(s) would tell the children that they would be freed if they solved all the mazes in the book. Leo's character also refers to her husband keeping snakes (she alludes that Alex had some sort of accident involving snakes and that being the reason for his mental state).
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How did Keller know where his daughter was?

After an exhausting ordeal he's been through and after losing almost all hope, he hears "You were there" from Joy. Moments later he realizes where was the only place where he could've been heard (we see that clearly on his face), and it dawns on him where his daughter is (or at least was).
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Is there a prisoner 2?

A man being forced to do a terrible thing in order to save his own life. A man being forced to do a terrible thing in order to save his own life. A man being forced to do a terrible thing in order to save his own life.
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What did Alex say in Prisoners?

While captured in the "wooden" prison in Prisoners, Alex Jones says: "I waited but he never came".
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Does End of Watch have a sequel?

"End of Watch" is about two officers, Officer Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Officer Zavala (Michael Pena). They were partners who had to watch direction LA.
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Why does joy say you were there?

When Joy sees Keller at the hospital, she remembers him being at Holly's house. Joy says "You were there, they put tape on my mouth." Meaning that when Keller was at Holly's house, Holly put tape on the girl's mouths to keep them quiet.
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Why is the movie Prisoners called Prisoners?

Alex and Bob are both victims and prisoners of the Jones couple. They are additionally trapped inside their mind and are continually trying to seek a way out, a way out of the maze that the Joneses have created for them. Just like the final maze given to them that has no solution, they are unable to do so.
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