The Face on the Milk Carton

Director Waris Hussein delivers another made-for-television drama, this one based on the popular young-adult book by Caroline B. Cooney. The movie stars Kellie Martin as Janie, a teen who one day sees her own face on the back of a milk carton in an ad for missing children. The movie follows Janie as she unravels the mystery of her true family. When she finds out that she has been separated from her birth parents for many years, Janie struggles with questions about the family she thought was her own, and the identity of her long-lost biological parents., Kellie Martin plays a 16-year-old who suspects she’s the abducted child pictured on the side of a milk carton. Miranda Jessmon: Jill Clayburgh. Frank Jessmon: Edward Herrmann. Sada Sands: Sharon Lawrence. Jonathan Sands: Richard Masur. Based on books by Caroline B. Cooney., Poignant drama about a high-school student who finds her life turned upside down when she is struck by the similarity of a missing person’s face, printed on a milk carton, to her own. When her parents reveal that her biological mother was involved with a dangerous cult, and that they changed her name to protect her from the cult’s followers, the girl embarks on a heart-rending search to find her real family., High-school student Janie finds her life turned upside down when she is struck by the apparent familiarity of a missing person’s face printed on a milk carton. Her parents reveal that her biological mother was involved with a dangerous cult, and that they changed her name to protect her from the cult’s followers. Janie embarks on a heart-rending search to find her real family.