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‘Kept Woman’: Lifetime Movie Inspired By True Events, Starring Courtney Ford, Shaun Benson

By Traciy Reyes
Published on: 09:21 PST, Jul 16, 2016

Kept Woman is a 2015 movie that is going to air on Lifetime Television today. Kept Woman, also known as Cautiva, is about a woman who suspects that her neighbor is hiding something. What she finds out leads to her own abduction. The Lifetime flick is directed by Michel Poulette and written by Doug Barber and James Phillips. Kept Woman stars Courtney Ford as Jessica Crowder, Shaun Benson as Simon, Andrew W. Walker as Evan Crowder, Rachel Wilson as Robin Simmons, Troy Blundell as Tyler Haynes, and Jesse Camacho as Oscar Garrett, according to Crushable.

Kept Woman Lifetime Movie Synopsis

Jessica and Evan have just moved into their first home in a charming suburban neighborhood. It isn’t long before they meet Simon, their eccentric next door neighbor, who seems a little quirky, but polite. Jessica finds out that Simon lives in his big house all alone, but before long, she begins to suspect that he is hiding a secret. To Jessica, Simon is strange. He dresses and talks as if he is living in a different era, and he buys a ton of groceries as if he is feeding more than one person. When she catches him in a lie, Jessica is sure that there is more to Simon than meets the eye, prompting her to put her investigative crime fighting skills to use by digging into his background.

The police have also made a connection between Simon and a number of missing women who have vanished. All of the missing women were students at different schools, where Simon previously taught.

In a strange turn of events, Jessica is kidnapped and blacks out before waking up in a place that she does not recognize. The place looks as if it is right out of a 1950s set, and there is a strange woman dressed in 1950s clothing. Soon, Jessica realizes that she is at Simon’s home, in his basement, which he has turned into a slave bunker to hold her and the other woman that he has kept for many years.

Meanwhile, Evan is looking all over for Jessica, not realizing that she is right next door in Simon’s man-made bunker. Now, there is a race against time to find Jessica before she permanently vanishes and is banished to live in a 1950s world forever.

True Story Kidnapping And Confined Cases

  • In 2003, John Jamelske, a retired handyman who was considered eccentric by his neighbors, was arrested for kidnapping and holding several women over the course of 15 years in his cement bunker. Authorities say Jamelske held the women for sex after his wife took ill and finally died. The bunker could only be accessed through a tunnel in his basement.

  • In 1977, Colleen Stan was abducted and held in a box by Cameron Hooker. Except for a few instances of freedom, Colleen Stan was confined to the box for 23 hours a day. She was also made to sign a slave contract. She was held for seven years until Cameron’s wife, Janice, confessed to the crime and helped Colleen escape. Her case is known as “The Girl In The Box.”

  • One of the most infamous cases is the story of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who lured his daughter, Elisabeth Fritzl, to the basement, where he held her for 24 years. During her captivity, Elisabeth Fritzl was beaten and raped. Authorities say that Fritzl kept her alive by taking food and groceries to the chamber. The 2010 Lifetime movie, Confined, is based on the case.
  • According to the Daily Mail, the Cleveland kidnappings of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina “Gina” DeJesus, made headlines in 2013, after Amanda Berry escaped from a home, where she and two other women had been held captive. Their abductor, Ariel Castro, imprisoned the women in his home for a decade. Lifetime’s Cleveland Abduction, which was based on the case, debuted in 2015.

Kept Woman (Cautiva) is produced by Incendo Productions and distributed by Film1 Action, Incendo Media, Lifetime Television, and Sky Cinema. Filming took place in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Jean Bureau is listed as the executive producer. Watch Lifetime’s Kept Woman today at 6/5 p.m. Central. Also airing this weekend is Killing Daddy on LMN.

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