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Girl in the Picture

2022 · Movie · R · 101 min · ★ 7.1 · 91% critics

CrimeDocumentary

A young mother’s mysterious death sends a shockwave through her family and reveals a decades-long mystery tied to her true identity. When her son is later taken, the case draws attention to a dangerous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

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Details
Years
2022
Release date
2022-07-06
Language
English
Rated
R
Runtime
101 min
Max quality
UHD
Critic score
91/100
TMDB rating
7.1/10 (298 votes)
About

You’ll likely like this documentary if you enjoy relentless true-crime investigations and complex cases that keep you guessing, but Not for you if you want a fully satisfying, neatly wrapped conclusion or if you find sexual violence stories unbearable, similar to Mommy Dead and Dearest or Capturing the Friedmans.

Pros: captivating true-crime mystery; tragic yet well paced; gripping investigation | Cons: missing details; hard to watch; unresolved questions

Themes

  • child abuse
  • sexual abuse
  • psychopath
  • oklahoma
  • psychological abuse
  • murder
  • fugitive
  • alias
  • true crime
  • physical abuse
  • missing child
  • death of mother
  • +9 more

Cast & crew

Directed by Skye Borgman