AFriendoftheFamilyisbasedontheharrowingtruestoryoftheBrobergfamily,whosedaughterJanwaskidnappedmultipletimesoveraperiodofyearsbyacharismatic,obsessedfamily“friend.”TheBrobergs—devotedtotheirfaith,family,andcommunity—wereutterlyunpreparedforthesophisticatedtacticstheirneighborusedtoexploittheirvulnerabilities,drivethem...