American Animals Film True Story

Directed by Bart Layton.

American animals film true story. Bart Laytons newest foray into true crime mixes fiction and documentary to underwhelming ends. American Animals Review. With Spencer Reinhard Warren Lipka Eric Borsuk Chas Allen.

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. In the age of alternative facts is this the way ahead for the documentary. True story behind American Animals - real-life tale of how four friends bungled 12m heist.

A Quasi-True Story Of An Audacious Art Heist By Ben Pearson June 1 2018 1000 am EDT This review originally ran during our coverage of the Sundance Film Festival. By Kenneth Turan May 31 2018 1245 PM PT. American Animals brings to the silver screen the story of the Transy Book Heist of 2004 where four students tried to steal 12 million worth of arts.

In the Sundance-acclaimed heist movie American Animals director Bart Layton used the actual men behind the crime to tell the story. After a visit to Transylvania University Lipka comes up with. 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 differs from The Imposter in that it is lightly fictionalized. 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. American Animals a thrilling tale of rare book theft is a startling mix of fiction and reality.

American Animals is a fascinating true crime story. Life isnt a movie but the. As wild as the plot is its actually based on a true story from 2005.