Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Actress and real housewife Garcelle Beauvais is putting her star power behind a critical issue by executive producing and starring in Black Girl Missing.
In the movie, Beauvais plays Cheryl, a mother who realizes her college-age daughter Lauren is not just ignoring her after an argument, she's gone missing. While trying to get help from the authorities, she finds out that her daughter's case is being treated very differently from that of another missing woman, who is White.