Story Line
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
“The true story of a child's punishment that became a woman's crime.”
Top Cast
Catherine Keener
Gertrude Baniszewski
Elliot Page
Sylvia Likens
James Franco
Andy
Bradley Whitford
Prosecutor
Ari Graynor
Paula Baniszewski
Nick Searcy
Lester Likens
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Rating
7.3/ 10
Release Date
2007-07-27
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
CrimeDramaHorror
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User Reviews (2)
Andres Gomez
5/10
•1/27/2013Very good performances from Ellen Page and Catherine Keener for quite an empty movie.
Could have been done much, much better with a proper direction and script.
HikariWS
No rating•4/21/2021
Nice point of view of the torturers.
It'd be easy to just show them as evil demons having fun doing bad things. I liked how the script portrays what they might had thought, sometimes very subtle.
As the guy who had a crush on her and was reject...