An American Crime (2007)
The true story of a child's punishment that became a woman's crime.
27/07/2007
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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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First Look International
Killer Films
John Wells Productions
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IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0802948
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Review by: Andres Gomez
Written by: Andres Gomez on 2013-01-27T21:05:26.876Z
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.
Review by: HikariWS
Written by: HikariWS on 2021-04-21T10:17:29.597Z
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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