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The 2007 film An American Crime is directly based upon the life and murder of Sylvia Likens. Directed by Indiana native Tommy O'Haver and distributed by First Look Studios, the movie cast Elliot Page as Sylvia Likens and Catherine Keener as Gertrude Baniszewski. [195] The Girl Next Door is loosely based
An American Crime is a 2007 American psychological horror drama [1] film directed by Tommy O'Haver and starring Elliot Page [a] and Catherine Keener. The film is based on the true story of the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Indianapolis single mother Gertrude Baniszewski. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. [2]
Sylvia Likens, 16, died in October 1965 after months of torture at the hands of her caregiver and multiple others A Teen Endured Months of 'Heinous' Torture Before Dying. Many Participated — and ...
An American Crime: A film which leans more in the direction of a true crime portrayal of Likens's murder. This film was scheduled for release at roughly the same time, but was not released until a Showtime premiere on May 10, 2008.
Murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenager tortured and repeatedly held captive in the basement by her caretaker and her children and their friends for three months, discovered on 26 October 1965. Jaycee Dugard, kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido, Antioch, California, US, 18 years, discovered on 26 August 2009. [29] [30]
Everest '82 (2007) – Canadian survival drama miniseries telling the true story of the first Canadians to climb Mount Everest [61] The Final Season (2007) – sport drama film based on the true story of Kent Stock, who in 1991 took on what he perceives as the job of a lifetime as head coach of the Norway High School Tigers baseball team [62]
The story takes place in 1950s suburban United States, and is told in flashback form by the narrator, David. Ruth, a single mother and an alcoholic (amongst other things) has three sons: Willie, Donny, and Ralph. Ruth has gained the trust of the neighborhood children by allowing them to come freely into her home, play as rough as they wish, and ...
Heat of the Sun is a British television crime drama series, created by Russell Lewis and Timothy Prager, that first aired on ITV on 28 January 1998. [1] Set in 1930s Kenya, the series stars Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard criminal investigations officer who is sent to work in Nairobi to reveal the underside of the expatriate community in Kenya, exploring murders ...