''Girl in the Picture'' is an American
Netflix original documentary film directed by
Skye Borgman
Skye Borgman is an American film director and cinematographer. She is best known for her work on the documentary film ''Abducted in Plain Sight''.
Life and career
Skye was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon. She was graduated from the Cornish Colleg ...
. It's based on the books ''
A Beautiful Child'' and ''
Finding Sharon'' by
Matt Birkbeck
Matt Birkbeck (born Brooklyn, N.Y.) is an American investigative journalist and author.
He is best known for his books ''A Beautiful Child'' (2004), which told the tragic story of "Sharon Marshall" and her "father" Franklin Delano Floyd, and th ...
, who also serves as executive producer. The story is centered on a young girl known as Sharon Marshall, who was abducted by a federal fugitive
Franklin Delano Floyd and then raised as his daughter. Over the course of the next two decades, she was sexually assaulted by Floyd, forced to marry him and ultimately died in a suspicious hit-and-run accident in 1990. The film follows the shocking events that transpired afterward, and the years-long efforts by Birkbeck, the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the
FBI to find her true identity. The film was released on July 6, 2022.
Reception
Upon its release, ''Girl In The Picture'' remained the number one movie on Netflix for several weeks.
On the
review aggregator website
Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a positive review of 96% based on 23 critics' reviews.
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2022 films
2022 documentary films
Netflix original documentary films
Documentary films about crime in the United States
American documentary films
2020s English-language films
2020s American films
English-language documentary films
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