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Angelina Jolie is interested in playing an embattled mum in a movie based on a Canadian woman's real-life mission to snatch back her daughters from her estranged Australian husband.
Melissa Hawach reclaimed her two young daughters in Lebanon in December last year after alleging they were abducted by their Australian-Lebanese father, Joseph Hawach, and flown to Beirut.
The Canadian woman hired a five-man team of mercenaries, including a New Zealander, to get her children back to Canada safely.
Hawach had not seen her daughters - Hannah, 5, and Cedar, 3 - for six months before they were reunited.
Five major movie studios have already bid for the rights to tell the tale, and Jolie wants to play Hawach.
