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Girl in the Basement
2021
· Movie
· 88 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4190
- IMDb #4056
- Letterboxd #4959
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3396
- Kinopoisk #4317
- Trakt #1859
Every rating
37–73
out of 100
A teenage girl is looking forward to her birthday. Instead of a celebration, her abusive father imprisons her in the basement of their home, telling the rest of the world she has run away. For years, she endures unimaginable horrors, all while living just steps away from her unsuspecting family and a life she can no longer reach.
Details
- Director
- Elisabeth Röhm
- Writers
- Barbara Marshall, Leslie Greif, Manu Boyer
- Studio
- Big Dreams Entertainment, Swirl Films, Lifetime
- Released
- 27 February 2021
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rated
- PG-13
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