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* OverprotectiveDad: Doris Mae's dad grills her about what she did on her date and threatens to shoot any man that goes near her.
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* RunForTheBorder: Doris Mae tells Leonard that they should travel through the mountains on foot to Mexico under cover of darkness. [[spoiler:The police show up before they can leave the cabin.]]
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* ComfortingComforter: On Doris Mae's first night in the cabin, Leonard sleeps on a thin mattress on the floor, while she sleeps curled uncomfortably in an armchair. She closes her eyes and opens them to find Leonard standing over her. He drapes his jacket over her and goes back to his mattress.
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* BecauseISaidSo: This is Leonard's explanation for why he ties up Doris Mae before he goes into town to buy supplies.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: When Doris Mae is first abducted, she's wearing a men's shirt and jeans due to spending most of her time helping out on the farm. Doris Mae persuades him to buy a blue dress on one of his trips into town. He's amazed by how beautiful she looks in it, and she is delighted to look like a lady for once.
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* HollywoodDarkness: Doris Mae makes her escape attempt under cover of an extremely obvious day-for-night shot.
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* HiccupHijinks: When Leonard gets the hiccups, Doris Mae tells him to wear a paper bag on his head and breathe deeply. Leonard goes along with it reluctantly, thinking he might suffocate. While his head is covered, Doris Mae taps his back and yells "BANG YOUR HICCUPS ARE DEAD!" It works.
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Twice Leonard walks in on Doris Mae while she's bathing in the creek and sees her from behind.
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''Sweet Hostage'' is a TV movie directed by Lee Philips, based on the novel ''Welcome to Xanadu'' by Nathaniel Benchley, that aired on Creator/{{ABC}} on October 10, 1975.
Mental patient Leonard Hatch (Creator/MartinSheen) escapes from an asylum in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} and flees to New Mexico. While traveling through a small town, he abducts Doris Mae Withers (Creator/LindaBlair), an undereducated teenage farm girl, and takes her to his secret cabin in the mountains. StockholmSyndrome sets in as he introduces her to poetry. Meanwhile, the local law enforcement search for her.
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!!''Sweet Hostage'' contains examples of:
* AwfulWeddedLife: Doris Mae's parents deeply resent each other. Her dad accuses her mom of teaching her to be a disobedient tramp, while her mom laments that if she'd married someone else she could still be living in UsefulNotes/StLouis instead of stuck on a farm. After she's kidnapped, her parents both blame each other.
* CameraAbuse: As Leonard drives Doris Mae to his cabin, he delivers a RoadsideWave to the camera.
* FoodSlap: Before her kidnapping, Doris Mae's parents get in a shouting match, during which her mom throws the contents of a pot of beans onto her dad.
* HarmfulToHitchhikers: Doris Mae flags down Leonard after her car breaks down. He offers to give her a ride into town. She doesn't realize he's up to no good until she tells him to slow down because her turn's coming up, and he floors the gas pedal instead.
* OverprotectiveDad: Doris Mae's dad grills her about what she did on her date and threatens to shoot any man that goes near her.
* PitTrap: Leonard warns Doris Mae that the woods around his cabin are full of traps. She doesn't believe him until her first escape attempt, when she falls through some brush into a pit and injures her ankle.
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Mental patient Leonard Hatch (Creator/MartinSheen) escapes from an asylum in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} and flees to New Mexico. While traveling through a small town, he abducts Doris Mae Withers (Creator/LindaBlair), an undereducated teenage farm girl, and takes her to his secret cabin in the mountains. StockholmSyndrome sets in as he introduces her to poetry. Meanwhile, the local law enforcement search for her.
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!!''Sweet Hostage'' contains examples of:
* AwfulWeddedLife: Doris Mae's parents deeply resent each other. Her dad accuses her mom of teaching her to be a disobedient tramp, while her mom laments that if she'd married someone else she could still be living in UsefulNotes/StLouis instead of stuck on a farm. After she's kidnapped, her parents both blame each other.
* CameraAbuse: As Leonard drives Doris Mae to his cabin, he delivers a RoadsideWave to the camera.
* FoodSlap: Before her kidnapping, Doris Mae's parents get in a shouting match, during which her mom throws the contents of a pot of beans onto her dad.
* HarmfulToHitchhikers: Doris Mae flags down Leonard after her car breaks down. He offers to give her a ride into town. She doesn't realize he's up to no good until she tells him to slow down because her turn's coming up, and he floors the gas pedal instead.
* OverprotectiveDad: Doris Mae's dad grills her about what she did on her date and threatens to shoot any man that goes near her.
* PitTrap: Leonard warns Doris Mae that the woods around his cabin are full of traps. She doesn't believe him until her first escape attempt, when she falls through some brush into a pit and injures her ankle.
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