American Animals Film True Story

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American animals film true story. By Kenneth Turan May 31 2018 1245 PM PT. American Animals directed by Bart Layton is a Sundance critical darling now surfing the wild waves of the summer season. Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in US.

As wild as the plot is its actually based on a true story from 2005. American Animals saddles us with four smirking privileged men who simply because they were bored with life in Lexington Kentucky decided to beat the piss out of a vulnerable older librarian in order to steal a 12 million book too big for them to carry. American Animals Crime Doesnt Pay.

Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal. American Animals is a true story of four college students who plan on stealing the most valuable book in the United States from their school library. American Animals Review.

Sprinkled throughout are interviews with the real-life robbers. American Animals develops this technique so that the reconstructions are the main body of the film in effect making it a based-on-a-true-story fiction feature but periodically cutting away to. In American Animals the four are shown arriving at the Transy U library in full old-man drag looking at once ridiculous almost Beastie Boysesque and totally out of their depth.

American Animals is a fascinating true crime story. In the Sundance-acclaimed heist movie American Animals director Bart Layton used the actual men behind the crime to tell the story. In the age of alternative facts is this the way ahead for the documentary.

But its a sensitive subtle one which. Spencer Reinhard Warren Lipka Eric Borsuk and Chas Allen are four friends who live an ordinary existence in Kentucky. Josh Lucas Rachael Taylor Rohan Nichol Luke Ford.