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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its children left to navigate neglect, secrecy, and a threatening adult presence echo An American Crime's claustrophobic helplessness, with a more stylized, psychologically eerie British atmosphere.
02
Why this pick
This shares the painful focus on a young person surviving abuse within a supposedly protective home, grounded by raw performances and occasional, hard-won emotional tenderness.
03
Why this pick
Another 1960s-set story of a teenage girl endangered by an outwardly ordinary adult, balancing grief and dread through a subjective, emotionally heightened viewpoint.
04
Why this pick
Its domestic violence is portrayed with the same bruising seriousness and attention to how abuse reshapes children and family bonds, though its setting and energy are more volatile.
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Why this pick
A devastating coming-of-age drama centered on a girl's endurance amid betrayal by adults, with the same period texture, moral outrage, and compassionate attention to survival.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1965, sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens (Ellen Page) and her disabled 15-year-old sister, Jenny (Hayley McFarland) enjoy themselves at a carnival circuit. Their parents, Lester (Nick Searcy) and Betty (Romy Rosemont), who work at the carnival circuit, reconcile their previously estranged relationship and agree to go on a tour together. To cope with these changes, they decide to leave the Likens sisters in the care of an impoverished single mother named Gertrude Baniszewski (Catherine Keener), since they have befriended her children at church.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Sylvia Likens
Betty Likens
Paula Baniszewski
Shirley Baniszewski
Prosecutor
Andy
Eric
Bradley
