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Overview
Release Date:
7 December 2007 (Sweden) moreTagline:
This has been the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana morePlot Outline:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s. morePlot Synopsis:
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(Cast overview, first billed only)Ellen Page | ... | Sylvia Likens | |
Catherine Keener | ... | Gertrude Baniszewski | |
Hayley McFarland | ... | Jennifer Faye 'Jennie' Likens | |
Ari Graynor | ... | Paula Baniszewski | |
Evan Peters | ... | Ricky Hobbs | |
Bradley Whitford | ... | Leroy K. New | |
Hannah Leigh Dworkin | ... | Shirley Baniszewski | |
Scout Taylor-Compton | ... | Stephanie Baniszewski | |
Carlie Westerman | ... | Marie Baniszewski | |
Nick Searcy | ... | Lester Likens | |
James Franco | ... | Dennis | |
Tristan Jarred | ... | Johnny Baniszewski | |
Channing Nichols | ... | Patty Ryan | |
Romy Rosemont | ... | Betty Likens | |
Michael Welch | ... | Teddy Lewis |
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Rated R for strong and disturbing depiction of child abuse and torture.Parents Guide:
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Based on a true story that happened in Indiana in 1965. moreQuotes:
Leroy K. New: Are you scared?Gertrude Baniszewski: I've been scared about a lot of things for a long time.
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I just read this link: http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/young/likens/1.html and I have to say the horrific nature of this movie pales in comparison to the actual events. What Sylvia Likens endured was beyond belief or that of any imagination. I am truly shaken just attempting to comprehend the horrors visited upon that girl. And any attempt at imaging how any human could do that that to a fellow human being is utterly incomprehensible. It's a tragedy of such malicious proportions my mind is incapable of accepting such truths about the vicious intent of human behaviour. I lack the vocabulary to describe these events or the impact they had on me by simply becoming aware of them. But I can tell you this, there is no word in any know language that could accurately describe the absolute horror of Sylvia Likens life and death.