This is a movie which begins with confidence and style, wearing its influences pretty insouciantly the film sashays about the screen with a kind of sexy-chic smirk, like the unvarying facial expression of its co-lead Eva Green.īut it wobbles at the brink of plot-holes which undermine the vital realistic plausibility of a film like this the entire third act moreover loses its way and winds up, like its heroine, in a ditch. Eventually, she started an online relationship with Nicholas Godejohn, the man from Wisconsin who would kill Dee Dee.There are touches of Single White Female and Stephen King’s Misery – and indeed Robert Harris’s The Ghost Writer, which Polanski filmed in 2010. She began discreetly corresponding with men online even though her mother monitored her Internet usage. Over time, Gypsy wanted to break free from her mother. Friends and neighbors were also keen to help them, not really knowing what was going on. Their house, for example, was built by Habitat for Humanity in order for Gypsy to have a handicap-accessible home.

While one neurologist suspected that something seemed off because of Gypsy's clean bill of health, nothing came out of his suspicions.ĭee Dee was able to collect donations in order to sustain her and her daughter. During these checkups, physicians would prescribe the young girl treatment for her supposed vision, hearing, sleep, and salivation problems.

Gypsy would go with her mother's plans in fear of physical retaliation.ĭee Dee went to at least 150 different doctors for her daughter's alleged illnesses, even crossing state lines. She kept her daughter in a wheelchair even though Gypsy was perfectly capable of walking - and as it turns out, perfectly healthy, period. For years, Dee Dee told friends and family that Gypsy suffered from a range of different ailments, including leukemia, epilepsy, and muscular dystrophy, on top of having the mental capacity of a 7-year-old child. Dee Dee and Gypsy had been living in Springfield, MO after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their home in 2005.

The act is based on a true story