Lifetime is expanding its Girl In franchise with Girl in the Cellar, its latest Ripped from the Headlines thriller.
Starring Kyla Pratt (The Proud Family) and Kelcey Mawema (Cruel Instruction), the movie is set to premiere Saturday, August 23 at 8/7c on Lifetime.
In case you’ve missed any of the previous movies in the franchise and want to catch up, Girl in the Cellar follows Girl in the Attic, Girl in the Garage, The Girl Locked Upstairs, Girl in the Video, Girl in Room 13, Girl in the Basement, Girl in the Bunker, Girl in the Box and Girl in the Shed, among others.
Inspired by real stories, the film follows a single mother who resorts to extreme measures to control her teenage daughter.
The logline: Rebecca (Pratt) grows increasingly concerned that her daughter Lory (Mawema) is not making the right life choices. The final straw comes when Rebecca learns that Lory has a secret boyfriend, and to prevent any further mistakes, she decides to confine Lory in their basement cellar. What Lory doesn’t know is that this is the same cellar where Rebecca was held captive by her abusive father years ago. As Lory battles for survival, the neighbors begin to notice her absence, and Rebecca’s behavior draws suspicion, making her a prime suspect in her daughter’s disappearance. Haunted by her traumatic past, Rebecca grapples with her actions and the conflicting feelings of guilt and justification over what she has done.
Girl in the Cellar is produced by Navid Soofi for PF Maple Productions Inc in association with Studio TF1 America. Executive producers are Timothy O. Johnson, Meghan Hooper White and Amelia Burstyn. Robert Adetuyi directs from a script written by Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt.
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