DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

The act : the complete limited series / written by Nick Antosca, Michelle Dean.

Universal City, CA : Universal, [2024]

2 videodiscs (approx. 7 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

2.39:1

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

From writers Nick Antosca (Channel Zero) and Michelle Dean comes The Act, based on Dean's 2016 Buzzfeed article "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered" and explores the tragic relationship between young Gypsy Blanchard and her overprotective mother Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette, in her Primetime Emmy winning performance). As Gypsy strives to break free from her mom's controlling influence, she begins to uncover a host of secrets that propel her down a deadly path.

Rating: Not Rated.

Mothers and daughters -- Drama.

Child abuse -- Drama.

Munchausen syndrome by proxy -- Drama.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Television crime shows.

Biographical television programs.

Television programs.

Antosca, Nick, screenwriter.

Dean, Michelle, screenwriter.

King, Joey, 1999- actor.

Arquette, Patricia, 1968- actor.

Sevigny, Chloë, actor.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.

Title from web page.

Wide screen (2.39:1)

Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 2019.

Joey King, Patricia Arquette, Chloe Sevigny.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, anamorphic widescreen (2.39:1); 5.1 Dolby Digital.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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