Lost Girls (film)
Lost Girls is a 2020 American mystery drama film. Lost Girls was directed by Liz Garbus, from a screenplay by Michael Werwie, and based on the book Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker. The film revolves around the murders of young female sex workers on the South Shore barrier islands of Long Island, committed by the Long Island serial killer, who remains unknown, but for which a suspect was charged July 14, 2023.
This article is about the American theatrical film drama. For other uses, see Lost Girl (disambiguation).Lost Girls
Michael Werwie
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
by Robert Kolker
Igor Martinovic
Camilla Toniolo
Anne Nikitin
- Archer Gray
- Langley Park Productions
- January 28, 2020 (Sundance)
- March 13, 2020 (United States)
95 minutes[1]
United States
English
Lost Girls stars Amy Ryan as the real life activist Mari Gilbert, along with Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke, Oona Laurence, Dean Winters, Miriam Shor, Reed Birney, Kevin Corrigan, and Gabriel Byrne. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2020, and was later released on March 13, 2020, by Netflix.
Premise[edit]
Mari Gilbert relentlessly drives law enforcement agents to search for her missing daughter, Shannan, and, in the process, sheds light on a wave of unsolved murders of young sex workers on the South Shore barrier islands of Long Island, committed by the Long Island serial killer.[2]