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[11/13/24 - 01:59 PM]
Dascha Polanco and Paige Hurd Each to Star in New "Ripped from the Headlines" Originals for Lifetime
The former stars in "Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story" on January 11; while the latter leads "Girl in the Garage: The Laura Cowan Story" on January 18.







TERROR COMES KNOCKING: THE MARCELA BORGES STORY (LIFETIME)
BROADCAST HISTORY:
1/11/25
STATUS:
telefilm/mini-series in the can
DESCRIPTION:
(from Lifetime's press release, November 2024) Based on a true story, Marcela Borges (Polanco) and her growing family's idyllic weekend quickly turns into every family's worst nightmare when masked gunmen barge into their Florida suburban home. With gunshots piercing their walls, a newly pregnant Marcela, her husband, and their young son are left with no choice but to comply with their captors' demands: surrender $200,000 or their lives. But with no means of accessing that sort of money, Marcela faces insurmountable odds to protect her family from their violent captors and must make the life and death decisions to keep her family safe.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Dascha Polanco as Marcela Borges
CREW INFORMATION:
· Crystal Verge as WRTR
· Felipe Rodriguez as DIR
· Jeff Vanderwal as EP
GENRE(S):
· mow
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Cineflix Productions