An American Crime

Name: An American Crime
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Released: 2007-07-27
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 7.305

★ 7,3 /10 (786 Votes)

2007 EN 97 min

Overview

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

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Release date

27/07/2007

Votes

786

Popularity

4.4

The true story of a child's punishment that became a woman's crime.

Genres

Crime Drama Horror

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

97 min

Budget

$2,000,000

Elliot Page

Sylvia Likens

Catherine Keener

Gertrude Baniszewski

Hayley McFarland

Jennifer Faye 'Jennie' Likens

Nick Searcy

Lester Likens

Romy Rosemont

Betty Likens

Ari Graynor

Paula Baniszewski

Scout Taylor-Compton

Stephanie Baniszewski

Tristan Jarred

Johnny Baniszewski

Hannah Leigh

Shirley Baniszewski

Bradley Whitford

Prosecutor

James Franco

Andy

Scott Eastwood

Eric

Michael O'Keefe

Reverend Bill Collier

Carlie Westerman

Marie Baniszewski

Michelle Benes

Hope Orbach

Jeremy Sumpter

Coy Hubbard

Brian Geraghty

Bradley

Channing Nichols

Patty

Michael Welch

Teddy

Evan Peters

Ricky Hobbs

Amy Ferguson

Sally

Will Carter

Officer Waters

Edward James Gage

Bailiff

Patricia Place

Mrs. Doyle

Paul Grace

Cottin Candy Vendor (uncredited)

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James Meehan

Defense Attorney (uncredited)

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Paul Palo

Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)

Gary Sievers

Carnie (uncredited)

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Very good performances from Ellen Page and Catherine Keener for quite an empty movie. Could have been done much, much better with a proper direction and script.

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Nice point of view of the torturers. It'd be easy to just show them as evil demons having fun doing bad things. I liked how the script portrays what they might had thought, sometimes very subtle. As the guy who had a crush on her and was rejected while she was still free, and later marked her. Paula who was pregnant and projected all her issues on Sylvia and wanted her to be seen as a prostitute. And Gertrudes herself who was old and ugly and probably was envy of Sylvia. Such possible motivations were shown without stimulating us to feel anger for them.

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