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Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story
GenreDrama
Based onSaving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That’s When My Nightmare Began
by Alex Cooper with Joanna Brooks
Screenplay byMichelle Paradise
Directed byJeffrey G. Hunt
Starring
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
  • Kyle A. Clark
  • Jeffrey D. Hunt
  • Lina Wong
Producers
  • Mark Costa
  • Mary Anne Waterhouse
Running time87 minutes
Production companySilver Screen Pictures
Original release
NetworkLifetime
ReleaseSeptember 28, 2019 (2019-09-28)

Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story is a 2019 American biographical drama television film directed by Jeffrey G. Hunt. Produced by Lifetime as part of its "Ripped from the Headlines" feature film,[1] it aired on September 28, 2019.[2]

The film stars Addison Holley, Nicolette Pierce, Sara Booth, Ian Lake, Kate Drummond, Wilson Cruz, Steven Cumyn, and Elisa Mooncherry. The screenplay by Michelle Paradise is based on the 2016 memoir Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That’s When My Nightmare Began by Alex Cooper and Joanna Brooks, which documents Cooper's experience in being sent to a conversion therapy home and the brutalities she endured while there.[3]

Plot

In Victorville, California, 15 year old Alex Cooper (Addison Holley) comes out to her Mormon parents (Kate Drummond and Steven Cumyn) as a lesbian and that she has fallen for her friend Frankie (Nicolette Pierce). This leads to them taking her to Utah to live with the Simms who Alex's grandparents (Roger Dunn and Lynne Griffin) told her parents about. Johnny and Tiana (Ian Lake and Sara Booth) abuse her for being a lesbian where they also beat her and punish her by having her wear a backpack full of rocks while facing the wall as a way to get her to become straight.

Cast

  • Addison Holley as Alex Cooper
  • Nicolette Pierce as Frankie Jackson
  • Ian Lake as Jonathan "Johnny" Simms
  • Sara Booth as Tiana Simms
  • Kate Drummond as Mrs. Cooper
  • Wilson Cruz as Paul C. Burke
  • Steven Cumyn as Mr. Cooper
  • Elisa Moolecherry as Carol Lynn
  • Stephen Joffe as Jason
  • Kaleb Horn as Damon
  • Dante Scott as Henry
  • Sofie Michal Maiuri as Mary
  • Emma Victoria Jackson as Emma
  • Alexander Elliot as Spencer
  • Leo Orgil as Wyatt
  • Alexandra Chavez as Daniela Lopez
  • Humberly González as Hannah Lopez
  • Lynne Griffin as Grandma
  • Michelle Arvizu as Sister Lopez
  • Roger Dunn as Grandpa
  • Laurie Murdock as Bishop Carver
  • Natalie Liconti as Colette
  • Nile Seguin as Mr. Lewis
  • Pip Dwyer as Sandra
  • Agueda Cardenas as Cleaning Lady
  • Sharon McFarlane as Administrator
  • David Frisch as Teacher
  • Drew Haytaoglu as Elder Thompson
  • Jamillah Ross as Cop
  • Konima Parkinson-Jones as Officer Janney
  • Nicolas James Wilson as Elder Sanders
  • Art Hindle as Church Leader
  • Jon H. Epstein as Bus Driver
  • Marie Dame as Sister Young (uncredited)

Reception

References

  1. ^ "'Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story' Lifetime Movie Premiere: Cast, Trailer, Date".
  2. ^ Messman, Lauren (September 28, 2019). "What's on TV Saturday: 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Midsomer Murders'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  3. ^ Cooper, Alex; Brooks, Joanna (2016). Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0062374608.
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