The Girl Next Door

Director: Gregory M. Wilson, Gregory Wilson Gregory M. Wilson

Overview

Based on the harrowing best-seller by author Jack Ketchum, director Gregory Wilson's The Girl Next Door presents a fictionalized account of the shocking ordeal endured by Sylvia Likens -- an innocent Indiana teen who was systematically tortured, raped, and murdered by a suburban divorc?e and a group of neighborhood children in 1965. Shortly after losing their parents in a deadly car accident, Meg Laughlin (Blythe Auffarth) and her younger sister, Susan (Madeline Taylor), are sent to live in the Indiana home of Ruth Chandler (Blanche Baker) and her three sons, Willie (Graham Patrick Martin), Donny (Benjamin Ross Kaplan), and Ralphie (Austin Williams). Upon arriving in the quiet suburban neighborhood, Meg quickly forges a warm bond with local neighbor boy David Moran (Daniel Manche). Strangely, Ruth seems to harbor some sort of unknown grudge against her pretty young charge, and it isn't long before events in the Chandler home begin to take an ominous turn. Now, as Ruth Chandler begins her slow descent into madness, the basement of a typical middle-class home is about to become the scene of a crime that would shock and repulse an entire nation.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/04/2007
UPC:	0013131559699
Original Release:	2007
Rating:	R
Source:	LIONSGATE - 600000-AEC LGE
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	16,989

Special Features

Audio commentary with director Gregory M. Wilson, producer Andrew van den Houten and cinematographer/; producer William M. Miller; Audio commentary with novelist Jack Ketchum and screenwriters Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman; Interviews with cast & crew; The making of The Girl Next Door; Trailer; Screenplay (DVD-ROM)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Blanche Baker	Ruth Chandler
Blythe Auffarth	Meg Loughlin
Daniel Manche	David Moran
Grant Show	Mr. Moran
Catherine Mary Stewart	Mrs. Moran,Mrs. Moran
Graham Patrick Martin	Willie Chandler Jr.
Benjamin Ross Kaplan	Donny Chandler
Austin Williams	Ralphie 'Woofer' Chandler
William Atherton	Adult David
Kevin Chamberlin	Officer Jennings
Spenser Leigh	Denise Crocker
Madeline Taylor	Susan Loughlin
Ryan Shore	Composer

Technical Credits

Daniel Farrands

Philip Nutman

Gregory M. Wilson	Director,Director
Daniel Farrands	Screenwriter
Philip Nutman	Screenwriter
William M. Miller	Producer
Andrew van den Houten	Producer
Albert Podell	Executive Producer
Marius Kerdel	Executive Producer
Cindi Rush	Casting