Beautiful & Twisted | |
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Genre | Crime Drama |
Screenplay by | Teena Booth |
Directed by | Christopher Zalla |
Starring | Rob Lowe Paz Vega Candice Bergen |
Narrated by | Rob Lowe |
Theme music composer | Nathan Whitehead |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Kyle Clark Damian Ganczewski Lisa Wong |
Cinematography | Richard Wong |
Editor | Ian Silverstein |
Running time | 86 minutes |
Production company | Sony Pictures Television |
Original release | |
Network | Lifetime |
Release | January 31, 2015 |
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