The Washington Post, May 5th, 1991
NBC's "Cry in the Wild" (Monday at 9) is the strange story of the 1966 kidnapping of a teenage girl in Pennsylvania. But even with the talented Megan Follows, David Morse as the "mountain man" who abducted her and David Soul as FBI agent Terry Anderson, the movie is curiously unsatisfying. Follows, 23, who turned in an acclaimed performance as "Anne of Green Gables," is bland as Peggy Ann Bradnick, the eldest daughter of a poor-but-proud family from Shade Gap, Pa. The problem is largely her character, who spends most of the movie running through mountains and woods as her abductor, once commit...
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