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An American Crime
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The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Actors:
Jeremy Sumpter,
Channing Nichols,
James Franco,
Amy Ferguson,
Calvin Keet,
Michael OKeefe,
Tristan Jarred
Jeremy Sumpter
5 February 1989, Monterey, California, USA
Channing Nichols
23 November 1993, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
James Franco
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
Amy Ferguson
Calvin Keet
Michael OKeefe
24 April 1955, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Tristan Jarred
3 June 1994, Saint Joseph, Michigan, USA
Country:
United States
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Kirk Honeycutt
January 19, 2007
Tragic tale of child abuse fails to make any sense of the crime.
February 18, 2007
What purpose does this film serve? I have watched it, and I have contemplated it, and I can come up with no good reason for it to exist.
August 22, 2008
Um projeto que encara a desgraça alheia como mero trampolim para o entretenimento.
August 18, 2008
If Eli Roth were to direct a Lifetime movie, it might look something like An American Crime.
March 22, 2007
A misfire and the most problematic film at Sundance, this fact-based tale of child abuse is disturbing, appalling, and voyeuristic due to poor conception and execution by writer-director O'Haver who ironically has been wanting to make it for 20 years.
January 18, 2007
Not even the considerable talents of lead thesps Catherine Keener and Ellen Page can alleviate the artistic nullity that is An American Crime.
February 09, 2007
(Catherine) Keener, always a versatile actress, takes on the challenge of portraying perhaps one of the most unlikable villains in the history of true crime, and tries to find the humanity buried somewhere within her.
May 16, 2008
i katalytika akadimaiki eksistorisi toy, poy problimatizei me tin idiazoysa sadistiki tis hroia stin parathesi sokaristikon skinon bias dihos peraitero diereynisi toys, afinei to myalo soy na kykloforei kai na kanei syndeseis mono toy, me ton idio tropo p
January 27, 2007
The real high point of this film is Catherine Keener's captivating performance in the role of the troubled and possessive Gertie, vacillating between disturbingly abusive and imploringly sympathetic the way only a truly manipulative psychopath really can.
September 02, 2010
By instead focusing more on the character of Gertrude Baniszewski, the film relegates Sylvia Likens to a cypher with no real identity - she's simply a vessel for abuse.
April 24, 2008
Gut wrenching performances, a well structured narrative, and a great cast makes "An American Crime" one of the finer movies to depict one of the most gruesome travesties of the twentieth century...