Lost Girls
2020
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1h 35min
• Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Gilbert family is clearly struggling in LOST GIRLS. Mari (Amy Ryan) is a single mom with three daughters living in Long Island. She works two jobs to support her family and is exhausted and stretched thin. Her youngest daughter, Sarra (Oona Laurence), a preteen, is prescribed meds to stabilize her behavioral issues. When Mari's eldest, Shannan (Sarah Wisser), doesn't join her family for dinner as planned, Mari is concerned. Though she's a young woman living on her own, it's unlike Shannan not to let Mari know where she is. After a number of unanswered cellphone messages and no word from Shannan for two days, Mari goes to the local police for help. Having to acknowledge that Shannan is a sex worker is difficult for Mari, and while it's not wholly surprising, it upsets her younger sisters Sherre (Thomasin McKensie) and Sarra. Though one supervising police officer (Gabriel Byrne) has good intentions, others are unsympathetic and disinterested. Shannan's "sex worker" way of life seems to imply that the young woman was self-destructive rather than vulnerable. Mari's relentless advocacy for her missing daughter leads to the discovery of the bodies of four female sex workers -- Shannan isn't among them -- buried on a beach, setting off a search for a serial killer.
