Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus (“The Farm: Angola, USA,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?”) turns to dramatized true crime with a grim story many New Yorkers will know: the string of murders of young women on the south shore of Long Island, whose bodies were uncovered between 2010 and 2011, and whose killer has yet to be found.
Amy Ryan (“Beautiful Boy”) brings depth and fire to the role of Mari Gilbert, a working-class mom whose daughter Shannan goes missing after frantically calling 911 from a gated beach community.
When Mari takes her case to two detectives (Gabriel Byrne and Dean Winters), she’s met with an infuriating but somewhat predictable disinterest — especially when they learn her daughter was a sex worker.
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