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Victim of torture murder. Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her ...
Plot. [edit] In the 1870s, several years after the end of the Civil War, veteran Jeb McAllister and his wife Hattie struggle to raise their adolescent son Will and infant daughter in the wilds of Montana.[6] Hattie is disillusioned with the drudgery of frontier life and wants to move back east to her parents' land, while Jeb wants to be self ...
An American Crime. An American Crime is a 2007 American crime drama 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.
Jack Ketchum 's The GIRL Next Door (also known as Jack Ketchum's Evil) is a 2007 American psychological horror - thriller film directed by Gregory M. Wilson from a screenplay by Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman. It is based on Jack Ketchum 's 1989 novel of the same name, [ 1] which was inspired by the real-life murder of Sylvia Likens, to whom ...
The story flashes back to when 23-year-old Teresa Walden was a waitress living with her mother, Wanda, in Hennessey, Oklahoma in November 1982. She applies for a job as a secretary for Stamper Oil Company, owned and operated by Paul Stamper. She gets the job and becomes attracted to Paul, her boss, and they eventually begin dating.
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific , and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home.
Box office. $29.6 million[1] An American Hauntingis a 2005 supernaturalhorror filmwritten and directed by Courtney Solomonand starring Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy, and Rachel Hurd-Wood. The film was previewed at the AFI Film Festivalon November 5, 2005 and was released in the UK on April 14, 2006 with follow-up in US theaters ...
Box office. $2.9 million [ 3] Sylvia is a 2003 British biographical drama film directed by Christine Jeffs and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, and Michael Gambon. It tells a story based on the real-life romance between prominent poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The film begins with their meeting at Cambridge in 1956 and ...