A Murdered Twin Pulls Four Familiar Faces Into A Mississippi Nightmare
Tiffany Haddish is trading punchlines for police authority in The Girl in the River, a late-summer crime thriller that brings her together with certified ’90s heartthrob Devon Sawa, Maggie Grace and Ralph Macchio.
The mystery begins after twin teenage sisters are abducted in a remote Mississippi town. One girl’s body is recovered from the river. Her sister remains missing. What follows is not a tidy procedural but a town-wide descent into fear, suspicion and the possibility that the killer has been standing in plain sight.
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Tiffany Haddish Steps Into A Much Darker Kind Of Authority
Haddish plays Police Captain Erica Graysmith, the relentless local authority overseeing an investigation that becomes more volatile with every new clue. The trailer leans into the dramatic gear she has increasingly explored outside comedy, presenting Graysmith as somebody who already understands just how ugly the case may become.
Her warning lands hard: “You’re not ready to confront what real evil looks like.”
The role gives Haddish a different kind of command. Rather than arriving to break the tension, she appears to be the person measuring it, controlling it and recognizing when the investigators are getting dangerously close to something they may not be prepared to face.
Devon Sawa And Maggie Grace Crawl Inside A Killer’s Mind
Sawa stars as Alan Kramer, a veteran criminologist nearing the end of his career. He is pulled into the town under Graysmith’s command and forced to partner with Amelia Pembrock, a brilliant but inexperienced profiler played by Grace.
The pairing immediately gives the investigation two different instincts. Kramer brings years of pattern recognition and accumulated damage; Pembrock brings psychological insight without the emotional armor that experience might have built. Together, they must understand a killer whose moves appear deliberate, controlled and designed to keep the entire town looking in the wrong direction.
As the missing-child case becomes a media firestorm, the search stops being only about evidence. Obsession begins taking over, pressure closes in and the possibility of finding the surviving twin depends on the investigators separating genuine clues from fear-driven noise before another child is lost.
Ralph Macchio Joins A Cast Built For Suspicion
Ralph Macchio rounds out the central cast, adding another familiar face to a thriller designed to make every person in town feel potentially connected to the crime. The film also marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director Brando Benetton.
Benetton approaches the story as a character-driven mystery rather than a simple manhunt. The trailer promises grim riverbank evidence, hostile interrogations, public panic and a case that steadily changes the people trying to solve it.
Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired the thriller for a release in theaters and on digital platforms, bringing the investigation to audiences just as summer begins giving way to darker nights.
The Girl In The River Arrives September 4
The Girl in the River opens in select theaters and arrives on digital on Friday, September 4, 2026.
The crime thriller is produced by Joe Lemmon and Andrew Stevens. Its central question is brutally simple: can Kramer and Pembrock find the missing twin before the person responsible completes whatever was started at the river?
Watch The Girl In The River Official Trailer
Watch Tiffany Haddish take command as Devon Sawa and Maggie Grace investigate a murdered child, her missing twin and a killer hiding inside a town consumed by suspicion.
Source: Samuel Goldwyn Films and Highland Film Group.
