Millet's famous, "The Basement" comes to the screen

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/movies/14broes.html?ref=movies

To this day the acts that occurred within the Baniszewski (pronounced ban-uh-SHEF-ski) home — where the 16-year-old Sylvia Likens was tortured and killed — remain as shocking as they are unfathomable. Which is why Mr. O’Haver so wanted Ms. Keener, whose low-key performance as the author Harper Lee in “Capote” had just won her an Oscar nomination. “It would have been easy to take this story over the top,” he said in a recent phone interview. “So I purposely pulled back. My mantra was ‘restraint, restraint, restraint...