Hey guys. So this is Vi and you are watching Movies Hunter. So I recently watched this crime
drama film released in 2018 called “Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey.” I wasn’t expecting
this movie to be this good. At first, I felt sad for what happened with the girl,
but then she did something unexpected, which really blew my mind. So in the opening scene,
we see Lisa McVey, a 17-year-old teenager, who works at a doughnut shop. After finishing her
shift, she leaves for home on her bicycle. While cycling down the road, she notices a car following
her but ignores it. She lives with her grandmother Diane and Diane’s boyfriend Morris in Tampa Bay,
Florida. Lisa has a traumatic childhood, as Morris regularly sexually assaults her, and Diane simply
chooses to ignore it. Lisa has a sister named Lorrie, who lives with their mother in Allentown,
Pennsylvania. Now Lorrie wants to visit Lisa, but Lisa stops her, as she doesn’t want Morris to be
anywhere near Lorrie. Lisa wants to leave her grandmother for good and return to Allentown,
but Lisa’s mother opposes this and says that she should help her grandmother and do whatever she
asks. The next morning, Lisa leaves for work. As she is going to get her payment for the month,
Morris reminds her to bring him all the money. Even though Lisa has a traumatic childhood,
she is very cheerful at work and is loved by the customers. Because of this,
no one even notices what she is going through. Before returning home,
Lisa sits all by herself near a lake and cries her heart out. As she cycles back home,
she notices the same car following her. But before she could react, the man grabs her and drags her
to his car at gunpoint. He then forces himself on her and promises her that he will let her go if
she satisfies him. But once he is done, he kidnaps Lisa and takes her back to his studio apartment.
Since Lisa is blindfolded, she can't see where the man is taking her. After making sure she is clean,
the man forces himself on her again. The next day, Diane reports Lisa missing, but she casually
assumes that she must have run away. When Lisa’s mother is informed about Lisa's disappearance, she
too assumes that Lisa has just run away and there is nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, Lisa is kept
bound and blindfolded all the time, while the man continually forces himself on her. Despite being
afraid, Lisa talks to the man and figures out that the man has been hurt by many women in the past,
which is why he hates them. So Lisa uses reverse psychology to gain his trust by being sweet to
him. She also leaves her fingerprints on surfaces in his bathroom. Later that night while the man
is asleep, Lisa gets a dream of herself having a conversation with her mother. Lisa wanted to leave
her grandmother’s house, and she even told her mother what Morris was doing to her. Despite this,
Lisa’s mother doesn’t seem to care and tells her that she can never have a good life. While the
man is distracted, Lisa leaves strands of her hair under his bed. She then continues being sweet to
the man by saying things like she understands his pain, she would love to become his girlfriend and
take care of him, and so on. The man eventually falls for her. After 26 hours, the man tells Lisa
that he must get rid of her, as the police are looking for her everywhere. So he takes her to
a secluded place, where he plans to kill her. But after hearing Lisa plead for her life repeatedly,
the man decides to let her go and flees the scene in his car. After he leaves, Lisa runs all the way
to her house. She tells her grandmother everything that happened to her, but she and Morris refuse
to believe her. Diane then calls the police to inform them that Lisa is home and that there is
nothing to worry about. But since Lisa claims to be kidnapped, the cops decide to take Lisa to the
police station for some questioning. Even though Lisa tells the officer everything that happened
to her, the officer doesn’t believe her story. Sometime later, two lady detectives questioned
Lisa about the incident. But when Lisa tells them everything in complete detail, the detectives are
stunned by the amount of detail Lisa remembers. According to them, a victim should not be able to
remember things in such detail. They too begin to think that Lisa is making it all up to get
attention, which frustrates Lisa. Meanwhile, all the detectives at the police station are working
on an extensive case, where nine women were found dead over the past few months. They all were
raped before death and the cops have no leads or suspects. Sergeant Larry believes that the man is
targeting women who are vulnerable and kidnaps them at night. After the briefing, Larry is
asked to talk to Lisa and try to learn if she is telling the truth or not. Larry talks to Lisa and
tells her that he specializes in Sex Crime. Lisa opens up to him and tells him everything that she
told the other detectives. She even memorized the man’s face when he allowed her to touch him. When
Larry tells everything to Morris, he dismisses everything and asks him to just send Lisa home.
Larry realizes that something is fishy and asks Lisa to tell him everything. So Lisa tells him
about the sexual assaults, soon after which Morris gets arrested. Lisa then packs all her belongings
and decides to move out of her grandmother’s house. Before leaving, she tearfully asks
her grandmother why she didn’t protect her. Larry then takes Lisa to a safe house for minors. Later,
the cops discover that the same kind of fibres is found on all the bodies of the nine dead women.
The next day, Lisa informs Larry that she left her fingerprints and hair strands at the man’s
apartment. She even left her blood on his car as evidence. She also reveals that the man seems to
know what he was doing and may have done it in the past. Larry realizes that Lisa’s attacker
might be the serial killer they are looking for. The only reason why the man let her go was that
Lisa has been through such abusive situations all her life, and she knew exactly what she had
to do to survive. So Larry decides to send Lisa's clothes for forensic testing to see if anything
comes up. Later, Larry and his daughter go to have dinner with Lisa and try to make her feel
comfortable. The next morning, Larry learns that Lisa’s clothes have the same fibres on them which
were found on other victims. So with the help of Lisa, Larry manages to sketch the man's face and
asks everyone to start looking for him. He then takes Lisa to the parking lot to help her remember
things. Lisa recalls the turns she remembers the man made on the drive to his apartment.
She eventually manages to find the tree where the man left her that night. Soon after that,
the cops start searching the nearby area. One of Larry’s colleagues spots a car similar to the one
Lisa described the man driving. But since the detective doesn’t have any proof to arrest him,
he decides to take a picture of the man along with his car. When he shows the picture to Lisa, Lisa
confirms that he is her attacker. Soon after that, the cops arrest the man outside a movie theatre.
One of the officers then discovers the blood mark left on the car by Lisa. Meanwhile, Larry
and the other cops arrive at the man’s apartment, where they find all the forensic evidence left by
Lisa. The man realizes that the only reason he got caught was that he let Lisa go. He let her
go because Lisa was special and different from others. The cops identify him as Bobby Joe Long.
Larry and others praise Lisa for her courage, as she helped them catch a serial killer. Later,
Larry offers Lisa to live with him and his family, but Lisa politely declines. Instead, she decides
to move in with her aunt Carol and Uncle Jim, who promises her that they will take good care
of her. Before parting ways with Larry, Lisa tells him that he hasn't seen the last of her,
and the two share an emotional goodbye before she drives away. After a couple of months,
Lisa writes to her mother that she was wrong. After moving in with her aunt and uncle,
Lisa and her sister found love and happiness in their life, which their mother could never
give them. A postscript reveals that Lisa lived with her aunt and uncle for a few years, finally
getting the family love and support she always craved. We then see the real Lisa McVey, who
grew up to become a Sherrif’s deputy specializing in sex crimes, working to protect young people
suffering from situations similar to hers. She now has a grown daughter and a beloved granddaughter.
Lisa remains friends with Larry to this day, who still refers to her as the number one hero of his
career. Bobby Joe Long was eventually executed in prison via lethal injection in 2019. So this
was the story of “Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey.” See you in the next hunt.