Lifetime shares imperfect ‘Story of a Girl’

Actress Kyra Sedgwick will be back on TV this fall in ABC’s “Ten Days in the Valley,” but first she’s making her directorial debut Sunday with the “Story of a Girl,” whose stars include her husband, Kevin Bacon, and their daughter, Sosie Bacon.

There are Lifetime movies, and then there are Lifetime prestige projects thrown into the mix of stalkers and serial killers to see if we’re awake. So Sedgwick’s directing one isn’t a surprise.

“Story of a Girl” stars Ryann Shane as Deanna, whom we meet three years after a video of her having sex as a 13-year-old went viral in her Oregon town.

Deanna desperate to escape a home where her own father, Ray, can barely look at her. But his own shame extends beyond Deanna — her brother Darren (Ian Belcher) is living in the basement with his girlfriend, Stacey (Sosie Bacon), and their baby, and Ray’s work life isn’t going so well, either.

Kevin Bacon plays the pizza shop owner whose hiring of Deanna takes the story to some places I didn’t see coming. It’s not a perfect story, or a perfect movie. But as a portrait of a girl who may not be perfect, but who is intensely human, it works.