| Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Based on | Saving Alex by Alex Cooper with Joanna Brooks |
| Screenplay by | Michelle Paradise |
| Directed by | Jeffrey G. Hunt |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
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| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Production company | Silver Screen Pictures |
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| Network | Lifetime |
| Release | September 28, 2019 |
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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 series,[1] it aired on September 28, 2019.[2] The film stars Addison Holley, Nicolette Pearse, 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 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]
- ^ "'Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story' Lifetime Movie Premiere: Cast, Trailer, Date". International Business Times. 28 September 2019.
- ^ Messman, Lauren (September 28, 2019). "What's on TV Saturday: 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Midsomer Murders'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ 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.