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An American Crime

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Reviews Counted: 6 Fresh: 2  Rotten:4 Average Rating: 4.8/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Synopsis: Catherine Keener stars in this disturbing story based on actual events from 1965. When the daughter (JUNO's Ellen Page) of two carnival acts is left under the care of Gertrude Baniszewski (Keener), she becomes the unfortunate victim of the single mother's tortured and abusive mind.... Catherine Keener stars in this disturbing story based on actual events from 1965. When the daughter (JUNO's Ellen Page) of two carnival acts is left under the care of Gertrude Baniszewski (Keener), she becomes the unfortunate victim of the single mother's tortured and abusive mind. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Catherine Keener, Ellen Page, James Franco

Director: Tommy O'Haver

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Aug 19, 2008

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DVD Features:

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Audio:

  • (unspecified) - English

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05/16/08
Joseph Proimakis
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3.5/4

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...

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04/24/08
Felix Vasquez Jr.
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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.

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02/18/07
Eric D. Snider
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Tragic tale of child abuse fails to make any sense of the crime.

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01/25/07
Kirk Honeycutt
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3.5/5

Something like watching a train wreck, An American Crime is both morbidly riveting and psychologically sickening -- definitely not a film for the weak of heart.

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01/25/07
Sally Foster
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Poorly conceived and helmed, O'Haver's fact-based drama of the horrific 1965 child abuse, is an excruciating experiece of watching violence onscreen witout any illuminating angle or insight; Catherine Keener gives her most problematic performance to date

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01/22/07
Emanuel Levy
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