The true story of a child's punishment that became a woman's crime.
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
- Harm to children
- Sexual violence
- Graphic violence
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Grave, bleak, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Catherine KeenerGertrude Baniszewski
- Elliot PageSylvia Likens
- James FrancoAndy
- Bradley WhitfordProsecutor
- Ari GraynorPaula Baniszewski
- Nick SearcyLester Likens
- Michael O'KeefeBill Collier
- Romy RosemontBetty Likens
- Jeremy SumpterCoy Hubbard
- Evan PetersRicky Hobbs
Crew
- Tommy O'HaverDirector
- Irene TurnerWriter
- Tommy O'HaverWriter
- Byron ShahDirector of Photography
- Alan Ari LazarOriginal Music Composer
- Melissa KentEditor
- Jocelyn HayesProducer
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