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An American Crime (2007)

7.3 | Jul 27, 2007 (US) | Crime, Drama, Horror | 01:37
Budget: 2 000 000 | Revenue: N/A

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

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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Elliot Page
Sylvia Likens
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Catherine Keener
Gertrude Baniszewski
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Hayley McFarland
Jennifer Faye 'Jennie' Likens
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Nick Searcy
Lester Likens
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Romy Rosemont
Betty Likens
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Ari Graynor
Paula Baniszewski
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Scout Taylor-Compton
Stephanie Baniszewski
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Tristan Jarred
Johnny Baniszewski
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Hannah Leigh
Shirley Baniszewski
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Bradley Whitford
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Reviews

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HikariWS
N/A | Apr 21, 2021
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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Andres Gomez
5 | Jan 27, 2013
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.