An American Crime

2007

CrimeDramaHorror

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 a child's punishment that became a woman's crime."

Rating

7.324
715 votes

Popularity

2.0154

Origin & Countries

US | en | United States of America

Production

First Look International,Killer Films,John Wells Productions

Runtime

97 min.

Status

Released

Release: 7/27/2007

Credits

An American Crime

Tommy O'HaverDirector

An American Crime

Elliot PageSylvia Likens

An American Crime

Catherine KeenerGertrude Baniszewski

An American Crime

Hayley McFarlandJennifer Faye 'Jennie' Likens

An American Crime

Nick SearcyLester Likens

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Reviews

Andres Gomez

1/27/2013

5 / 10

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.

HikariWS

4/21/2021

/ 10

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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