American Animals (2018)

Directed by

Bart Layton

Genre

drama film, docufiction, crime film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 1,222 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four college students plan and attempt to steal rare books from a university library. The film mixes interviews with the real people involved and actors playing them.

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What happens

American Animals is a 2018 docudrama heist film written and directed by Bart Layton. Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, and Ann Dowd, it is an account of the Transylvania University book heist in Lexington, Kentucky in 2004. The film cuts between interview segments of the real-life people involved in the heist and actors playing out the same events. American Animals premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2018. The film was theatrically released in the United States on June 1, 2018, by The Orchard and MoviePass Ventures. Among other awards the film won the Junior Jury Award at The Montclair Film Festival. It received generally favorable reviews from critics, particularly for its screenplay, acting, use of unreliable narrators, and an unconventional storytelling structure that fused real-life characters and actors representing those characters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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