An American 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.
24 April 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 October 1981, East Berlin, East Germany
29 March 1991, Oklahoma, USA
20 January 1987, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
27 April 1983, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
5 February 1989, Monterey, California, USA
10 October 1959, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
23 November 1993, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
21 February 1989, Long Beach, California, USA
19 April 1968, Appomattox, Virginia, USA
13 May 1975, Toms River, New Jersey, USA
15 December 2001, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 February 1987, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
7 March 1959, Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA
3 June 1994, Saint Joseph, Michigan, USA
7 December 1924, Long Beach, California, USA
21 March 1986, Carmel, California, USA
23 March 1959, Miami, Florida, USA
24 April 1955, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
25 July 1987, Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
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...
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.
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.
August 22, 2008
Um projeto que encara a desgraça alheia como mero trampolim para o entretenimento.
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.
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 19, 2007
Tragic tale of child abuse fails to make any sense of the crime.
August 18, 2008
If Eli Roth were to direct a Lifetime movie, it might look something like An American Crime.
