ANGIE: LOST GIRLS

ANGIE: LOST GIRLS is a gut-wrenching nightmare about an average American sixteen-year-old Angie Morgan’s abduction and sale into a sex-trafficking ring in Los Angeles. Angie is brutally raped, beaten and gaslighted by psychological terror into submission. She makes friends with Zoey, another young girl trafficked under the trafficking ring’s control, Zoey takes Angie under her wing and shows her how to say alive. Meanwhile, Angie’s parents, Hailey and Dan, are on a desperate search with local detectives to find their girl before she disappears forever.

Angie Morgan is a 16-year-old girl in an average hard-working American family. Her parents, Hailey and Mark, both work overtime to make ends meet. Caught up in their careers, Angie is left with responsibilities beyond her years. She’s often left to care for her younger sister. Full of zest, Angie fights for a social life. Angie often disappoints her friends because of her duties at home demand her time and attention. Her parents’ unintentional neglect, however, adds pressure that leaves her wide open when a sex-trafficking scout, posing as a handsome young suitor, lures her into a meeting with a man she believes is a successful music producer. Instead, she’s led to a warehouse, where she is raped on the spot in front of a camera.

Angie is drugged and forced to live in conditions beyond deplorable with other underage girls. The girls are dragged out and thrown into rooms where they will be raped and tortured 20-30 times a day, sometimes by gangs. The sex traffickers use psychological terror by threatening to kill victims’ family members if they try to escape.

On the brink of insanity, Angie meets Zoey, another victim. Zoey cares for Angie and teaches her how to stay alive until her parents find her. She adds that most of the victims don’t have family, or anyone at all, who cares to look for them. With the help of Zoey, Angie struggles to keep it together. Even if she manages to get out of this hell on earth, will she ever be able to live a normal life again?

ANGIE: LOST GIRLS presents an eye-opening look into the underworld of sex-trafficking, including the tactics of scouting, grooming, abducting victims, and the brutal daily business of selling sex with underage girls for money. Great acting and suspense make this movie a great thriller.

ANGIE: LOST GIRLS has a strong Christian, moral worldview. For example, Angie’s mother tells her children to pray because God is always listening. Also, her imprisoned friend, Zoey, prays during their captivity. “How can you still pray?” Angie asks. “Prayer is something they can’t take away,” Zoey replies. In addition, some detectives and a caseworker risk their lives to save Angie and other trafficked girls. However, the movie also contains intense rape-related violence (including screams from victims), brutal beatings, cruel psychological abuse, a fairly graphic scene where a character is shot in the head, a scene where a trafficked victim’s tongue is cut out, and disturbing verbal references to being raped 20-30 times a day. ANGIE: LOST GIRLS also contains some underage drinking and verbal references to the traffickers giving drugs to their trafficked victims. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for adult viewers.