Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story

Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story
Television poster
GenreDrama
Based onSaving Alex
by Alex Cooper with Joanna Brooks
Screenplay byMichelle Paradise
Directed byJeffrey G. Hunt
Starring
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
  • Kyle A. Clark
  • Jeffrey D. Hunt
  • Lina Wong
Producers
  • Mark Costa
  • Mary Anne Waterhouse
Running time87 minutes
Production companySilver Screen Pictures
Original release
NetworkLifetime
ReleaseSeptember 28, 2019 (2019-09-28)

Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story is a 2019 American biographical drama television film directed by Jeffrey G. Hunt. Produced by Lifetime as part of its "Ripped from the Headlines" feature film series, it aired on September 28, 2019. The film stars Addison Holley, Nicolette Pearse, Sara Booth, Ian Lake, Kate Drummond, Wilson Cruz, Steven Cumyn, and Elisa Mooncherry. The screenplay by Michelle Paradise is based on the 2016 memoir Saving Alex by Alex Cooper and Joanna Brooks, which documents Cooper's experience in being sent to a conversion therapy home and the brutalities she endured while there.