Natalee Holloway: A Case That Captivated The Nation

A Film Adaptation

The book became so popular that a movie was made based off of the novel. While critics, such as Jarett Wieselman of the New York Post, said that it was too soon after Natalee’s disappearance for a film to be made, the announcement from the Lifetime Movie Network said that they intended to tell Natalee’s story “sensitively and accurately” and that they would work directly with Natalee’s mother to tell her story.

The made for TV movie first aired on Lifetime on April 19, 2009. It received the network’s highest television ratings in its history, bringing in 3.2 million viewers on the night that it first aired.