12 Desperate Hours is a film adapted from Ann Rule's Last Chance, Last Dance true crime collection.

The film is directed by Gina Gershon and stars Samantha Mathis, Harrison Thomas, and David Conrad.

[1][2] The film premiered on the Lifetime network in the United States on February 25, 2023.

[3] The film follows Val whose family is held hostage by a murderer.

Val offers to drive her captor wherever he wants if he spares her husband Mark and their children.