Bradley Whitford has joined the cast of
An American Crime, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The gritty true-crime drama is being directed by Tommy O'Haver. The film, written by O'Haver and Irene Turner, tells the story of Sylvia Likens, a 16-year-old who died in 1965 while under the care of a woman named Gertrude Baniszewski. Whitford plays the prosecuting attorney in the trial of Baniszewski v. the state of Indiana.