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Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | 2009 | Catherine
Long Form Original | 2009 | Irene
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | 2008 | Catherine
Budget 2,000,000 USD
The real-life daughter, Paula Baniszewski, was released from prison and changed her name. She ended up getting a job as a guidance counselor aide in an Iowa school and worked there for 14 years before anyone found out about her real past. She was immediately fired.
This movie was the second attempt to tell Sylvia Likens' story on the big screen and the first one to be successful. In the early 1980s there were moves to make a movie about Sylvia but they were dropped in the face of intense opposition from Sylvia's sister Jenny. It wasn't until after Jenny's death in 2004 that efforts to tell the events of 1965 in a movie were revived.
The film was shot in chronological order to give the actors the experience of what Sylvia really went through.
Elliot Page was the only choice to play Sylvia Likens.
Elliot Page literally starved himself for his role as Sylvia. When director Tommy O'Haver noticed Elliot was looking thinner, he asked him if he were eating and he replied "No, because Sylvia wasn't being fed."
"Sylvia Likens: Reverend Bill used to say, "For every situation God always has a plan." I guess I'm still trying to figure out what that plan was."
"Sylvia Likens: She sacrificed me to protect her children, and she sacrificed her children to protect herself."
