Writer-director A.V. Rockwell's feature debut A Thousand and One has gotten praise for its gripping drama of a devoted mother who kidnaps her son from the NYC foster care system, prompting audiences to wonder if it's based on a true story. A Thousand and One stars Teyana Taylor as Inez de la Paz, a hairdresser and newly-released prison inmate living in New York City. She visits her 6-year-old son, Terry (Aaron Kingsley Adetola) at his foster home. When he tells her that one of his earliest memories is her abandoning him when he was two years old, a desperate Inez kidnaps Terry back and goes on the run.
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