Family Sins
The world saw them as the perfect family. The law found some perfect criminals.
2004 · 1h 30m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Graeme Clifford
Overview
Based on the true story of the Burt family who seemed normal, upstanding members of the community but were actually deeply embedded in crime. The matriarch took in foster children who were subsequently molested and abused by her husband and children and she kept a woman enslaved and imprisoned in the basement for over twenty years until the woman's daughter managed to get to Rhode Island Attorney General David Morwitz and expose the horrors taking place in the Burt household.
Director and cast
- Graeme Clifford Director
- Kirstie Alley as Benda Geck
- Deanna Milligan as Marie Devereaux
- Kathleen Wilhoite as Nadine Devereaux
- Will Patton as Philip Rothman
- Kevin McNulty as Kenneth Geck
- David Richmond-Peck as Joey Geck
- Erin Karpluk as Carol Geck
- Steve Braun as Jimmy Geck
- Tygh Runyan as Gary Crandall
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