Natalee Holloway (film)

Natalee Holloway is a 2009 American television film directed by Mikael Salomon based on Beth Holloways book about the 2005 disappearance of her daughter Natalee Holloway. The film stars Amy Gumenick as Natalee Holloway, Tracy Pollan as Beth HollowayTwitty, and Stephen Amell as Joran van der Sloot. When it aired on the Lifetime Movie Network on April 19, 2009, the film scored the highest television ratings at that time in the networks history.

The film was shot in Cape Town, South Africa, and produced by Sony Pictures Television with Von Zerneck Sertner Films. Holloways book was adapted for television by Teena Booth, who had previously written A Little Thing Called Murder and Fab Five The Texas Cheerleader Scandal for Lifetime Television. Holloway said that she was fascinated and at first overwhelmed by the logistics of the production, which she views as an accomplishment.The film retells events leading up to the night of Natalee Holloways disappearance in Aruba, and the ensuing investigation in the aftermath. The film does not solve the case, but stages recreations of various scenarios, based on the testimony of key players and suspects, including Joran van der Sloot, who is the last person seen drinking with her and escorting her out of the bar. His contradictory accounts, some presented days and others presented years later, are used to present different reenactments of Holloways final hours before she went missing. ........

Source: Wikipedia