I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)

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AKA:
Directed by: Larry Elikann
Starring: Corin Nemec (Steven Stayner), Luke Edwards (Young Steven), Arliss Howard (Kenneth Parnell), Cindy Pickett (Kay Stayner), John Ashton (Del Stayner), Pruitt Taylor Vince (Irving Murphy), Todd Eric Andrews (Cary Stayner), Bryan Cranston (Cop who visits Parnell), Stephen Dorff (Pete), Jacob Gelman (Timmy White), Steven Stayner (Cop to the right during the homecoming)
Country: USA; Effed Up American Cinema
Language: English
Runtime: 03:03:23
Genres: Based on a True Story, Captivity-Kidnapping, Old-Young, Gay character, Courtroom Scenes

Plot – Spoilers:
Based on the case of Steven Stayner.

It’s Christmas time and an American family living on a budget but who are otherwise fairly comfortable, find their life disrupted when 7-year-old Steven is kidnapped by Kenneth Parnell and his accomplice. Parnell’s initial claims are that he’s tired of his lonely single life and just wants to be dad to an obedient son who’ll pull his boots off when he comes home drunk. He also justifies the abduction by citing the cases of plenty of kids who are bored or unhappy with their families and want out. But starting day 1, Parnell turns sexual and the abuse and captivity lasts another seven years.

Without being explicit, despite being originally a TV movie, I Know My First Name Is Steven is one of those 3 hour-long movies that you can probably sit through in one session. It’s got its TV tropes but does a fairly good job of capturing Parnell’s total confidence in his stranglehold on his boy and the little steps he took to crush any sense of selfworth and will to oppose.

Random:
Ironically Parnell got a heavier sentence for attempting to buy a kid as an old man than he did for his actual committed crimes.

Steven Stayner died at 24 when a car crashed into his bike in a hit-and-run.

The mostly happy Stayner family portrayed in the film was different from reality. Steven’s older brother, Cary Stayner ended up a serial killer and alleged being messed up even as a child apart from abuse from an uncle.

The real Steven Stayner has a cameo here as the cop (to the right) during the homecoming scene.

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Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard
April 25, 2026 4:47 pm

This film is like two (clap) TWO! (clap) two movies in one! The first half of this two part TV miniseries is about the abduction and imprisonment of Steven Stayner and the second half is about his escape and his difficulties trying to adjust to his family and home life after 7 years. Since it is a TV movie, of course it has some cornball schmaltz but it is an interesting and sad story. It depicts quite clearly how the pedo perpetrator Kenneth Parnell was allowed to game the system and basically get off scot-free. Parnell was allowed to have free attorneys, free meals, free room and board, free health care and all the gay sex he wanted in prison during his trial and then was released to commit more crimes in less that just 2 years after the trial. Kenneth Parnell did eventually end up in prison for trying to buy a 4 year old boy for $500, insisting that the boy must have a clean anus, but that was when he was 71 years old, so basically Parnell was allowed to rape boys his whole life and the “law” didn’t do a fucking thing to stop it. Parnell died in prison from natural causes with the tax payers footing the bill for his hospice care, doctor’s fee’s and medications. It’s more or less a story about a pedo who winds up fucking everyone. 4 stars.

RETCHER
RETCHER
January 2, 2026 9:37 am

I thought Stevens older brother was much hotter! I mean, if you’re going to take the risk of kidnapping some kid with a family, instead of a run away or a foster kid, why not go for broke & snatch a cute one? Sexual predators have such bad taste, just look at the way they dress for court…

Dadz
Dadz
December 29, 2025 10:33 pm

The movie was long but it was unfinished. Did not even resolve the relationship with the dad, only with the mom. If this happened, then maybe some of the comments below are possible that maybe Steven was indeed sold to Kenneth Parnell.

Name
Name
December 29, 2025 3:33 am

Someone send Steve to therapy. And the people in these comments ..

Desecrated
Desecrated
December 26, 2025 5:16 pm

Has this website comment section always been this schizoid?

If I were to look at endless threads talking about ‘playing poker the minor!’ I’d go on 4chan. But I suppose with these kind of films on this certain website it opens up a free space for bluffing future felons to pander to, and who is Steve? Why is this dude everywhere.

I’d appreciate more movie reviews to know what I’m getting to, Thank you very much.

Let’s keep the pedophilic tendencies to a minimum. Immediately,

dorm
dorm
December 4, 2025 4:35 am

So tragic. 5/5

concerned individual
concerned individual
October 8, 2025 4:31 pm

wow, some of these comments are seriously fucked up. jokes or not- but i manage to get a laugh out of the stupidity and the back and forth fighting, it’s like watching kids fight. “fuck you “no fuck you” type shit. i’d like to think the disgusting behaviour is due to these fuckers who are pea brain tossers and have nothing better to do than to get fatter and lay around all day. i kind of actually feel bad for such a sad life choice.

Kenneth Parnell
Kenneth Parnell
September 29, 2025 8:58 pm

fuck steve

cookie
cookie
July 31, 2025 12:26 am

this movie was so amazing and sad, rest in peace Steven Stayner

what the fuck
what the fuck
April 22, 2025 9:39 am

Who the FUCK is Steve and what the FUCK are these comments? They’re hilarious but what the fuck is going on with this site?

Movie Buff
Movie Buff
April 3, 2025 3:49 am

This movie was seriously boring. I thought it would never end. It was way too long. Were they trying to show his whole transformation and everything? Its wack that he becomes like this sex crazed alcoholic, i thought it was bizarre given how young the actor looked

numberoneterrorist
numberoneterrorist
April 1, 2025 3:53 pm

wtf are these comments bro

Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull
March 20, 2025 6:51 am

Steve is a cunt bastard

Zed Man
Zed Man
March 17, 2025 11:36 pm

EUM guys, need some more films, people are getting restless. The comments are an indication of frustration, they get worse the longer the waiting time. It’s up to you to keep the hordes satisfied. And please no more movies with Steve and boy in the title.

Bukowski
Bukowski
March 17, 2025 9:02 am

Damn, great movie, but they omitted some interesting stuff. The short scene of his kidnapper inviting a woman over for a threesome? Her name was Barbara Mathias and she was present for his ENTIRE abduction yet never charged despite having abused him as well.

There’s so much more to this whole case we’ll never know. Brother Cary Stayner getting placed with another sexually sbusive uncle who got murdered and then Cary later fell in with human trafficking snuff/meth bikers becoming a serial killer.

Some speculate the parents sold him. Isn’t it odd his kidnapper lived next door to his grandfather who hated the kid?

Big Cock Jew
Big Cock Jew
March 17, 2025 1:54 am

Shalom

Peter Rose
Peter Rose
March 17, 2025 12:42 am

All you little fucking faggots love Stephen. He’s all you can talk about because you dream of his sweet asshole. All of you fucking faggots should get a room. Fuck you you bunch of pussies. HA HA.

xXJuicyKumFartz69Xx
xXJuicyKumFartz69Xx
March 16, 2025 5:19 pm

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James H
James H
March 16, 2025 2:55 pm

And to think, Cary Stayner would grow up to be a serial killer sitting on death row. So sad

Cronenberg
Cronenberg
March 16, 2025 1:30 pm

Here’s a challenge to EUM:

“Murder Story” (Mordsaga) from 1977 is the first color movie from Iceland.
It’s a family drama with some nasty stuff in it.
It upset a lot of people when it came but it’s since long forgotten now.
Pretty rare it seems.

fred
fred
March 14, 2025 6:45 pm

he knew but he couldn’t spell – its stephen

Humble Misanthrope
Humble Misanthrope
March 13, 2025 9:07 pm

I chose not to procreate.

People who pop out crotch goblins are really fucking pretentious assholes. You have to be in order to reproduce. You think your existence is such a fucking amazing addition to life on earth and that the world would be even better with multiples of you running amok.

It’s peak arrogance.

Fuck you.

Cole
Cole
March 13, 2025 4:07 am

Sloppy grandma vagina is my favorite meal.

I particularly like the flaky skin & the stench of death.

Fuck yea

cunt
cunt
March 12, 2025 6:34 pm

the sad pathetic people who comment on here have become boring …no more witty insulting banter just repetitive bollox.

Regan MacNeil
Regan MacNeil
March 12, 2025 8:15 am

Dead Bug tells this story better.

Starfish Asshole
Starfish Asshole
March 12, 2025 1:25 am

Congratulations everyone – you played right into Steve’s hand…again.

He sets some juicy troll bait and you all pounce like a crack whore who hasn’t scored in 4 hours.

Do better people. I’m losing faith in all of you very quickly. Not that I had much to begin with, but still.

Steve
Steve
March 11, 2025 11:28 pm

“George” “Edna” “Doomsday cock” “a concerned friend” “Trigger boy” yes, but always remember MY FIRST NAME IS STEVEN & i love underage anus. The OG, the one & only. Ta ta. You little jerk offs. Ha ha. I showed you little assholes, im off to preschool for some pre teen ass prowling, lock up your kids. Tick tock.

Doomsday Warning
Doomsday Warning
March 11, 2025 8:24 pm

NSDAP FAGGOT ALERT

Listen here asshole – I will eliminate you.

Consider yourself warned.

NSDAPwasChristian
NSDAPwasChristian
March 11, 2025 9:52 am

Are Indians White?

I consider myself a Brahmin since my skin is more fair compared to the Dalits who get cleaned up by passing trains and i also consider myself to have superior knowledge and genetics to my counter-parts. I would probably be mistaken for maybe an Italian or some other European-Mediterranean.
Brahmins like me share most of our DNA with Europeans in mainly western and northern Europe. In India, high frequencies of this haplogroup (R1a0 is observed in West Bengal Brahmins (72%) in the east, Bhanushali (67%) and Gujarat Lohanas (60%) in the west, Uttar Pradesh Brahmins (68%), Punjab/Haryana Khatris (67%) and and Karnataka Medars (39%) in the south. I, myself also belong to this haplogroup. Obviously this haplogroup descends from the broader haplogroup R which is European in origin which gave birth to R1a and R1b etc.

Most Brahmins also have the same measurements as any European skull making them Caucasoid and brachycephalic.
Europeans skull – Skull Length 18.6 cm (7.3 in.) Skull Width 13.5 cm (5.3 in.) Skull Height 18.4 cm (7.2 in.)
Indian skull – Skull Length 18.9 cm (7.4 in.) Skull Width 12.9 cm (4.9 in.) Skull Height 18.4 cm (7.2 in.)

“The loss of the India by the British Empire would be a misfortune for the rest of the world, including Germany […] I as a German would far rather see India under British domination than any other nation.”

—Adolf Hitler

NSDAPwasChristian
NSDAPwasChristian
March 11, 2025 9:30 am

“Streicher then explained to me that he was a devout Christian, but that he was convinced that Christ was an Aryan and thats why the Jews had crucified him”.

~Baldur von Schirach
Ich glaubte an Hitler p.70

Yedolf
Yedolf
March 11, 2025 8:38 am

damn we’ve been eating well recently, tysm eum

RapistOvSatan
RapistOvSatan
March 9, 2025 12:27 am

The guy named steve here in the comments thinks he’s important or something… Nobody cares if you rape little boys, it’s actually a pathetic life choice honestly. Only women should suffer such fate.

1shgod
1shgod
March 7, 2025 9:59 pm

This movie was so good

fred
fred
March 7, 2025 2:57 pm

god didnt create adam and eve they created admin and steve

Luscious Pussy
Luscious Pussy
March 7, 2025 2:42 am

Hah! You edgelord fucks like Zed thought this was going to be a shit show in the comments.

It’s only a circus when Steve and I want it to be. We know how to trigger you cunts and do so as we please when we need some excitement.

Cope

Steve
Steve
March 5, 2025 9:50 pm

My little boys know my first name is Steven but they always call me Daddy.

Berkowitz
Berkowitz
March 5, 2025 4:29 pm

&……..Here……..we……..go..

Idk
Idk
March 5, 2025 4:04 pm

Hi everyone!!