An American Crime

An American Crime

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

Sinopse

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

  • 7.3
  • 2007
  • Released
  • 1h 37m

Reviews

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@HikariWSover 4 years ago

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 prosti

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@tantyalmost 13 years ago

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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