Eric Borsuk's work here is as daring as any heist. In American Animals, the four are shown arriving at the Transy U library in full old-man drag, looking at once ridiculous, almost Beastie Boys–esque, and totally out of their depth. .orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}View high quality images that let you zoom in to take a closer look. Filming began in Charlotte, North Carolina, in February 2017. [20], "The Real-life Heist Caper Behind American Animals", "Sundance Film Festival Unveils Full 2018 Features Lineup", "In ‘American Animals,’ These Guys Didn’t Visit the Library to Study", "About that movie being shot in Charlotte right now...", "Indie film "American Animals" starring Evan Peters and Blake Jenner being shot in Charlotte", "Blake Jenner, Four Others Join Evan Peters in Indie Heist Film 'American Animals, "Evan Peters To Star In Bart Layton's Heist Pic 'American Animals, "The Orchard & MoviePass Ventures To Unleash Sundance Acquisition 'American Animals' This Summer", "Sundance: MoviePass, The Orchard Buy 'American Animals, "MoviePass Reps 40% Of 'Gotti's $1.67M Opening As Critics Slaughter John Travolta Mob Pic", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Animals&oldid=981834885, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 4 October 2020, at 17:56. It's good to be smart but not too smart. On the day of the robbery, they disguise themselves as elderly businessmen and enter the library. Other songs include:[13][14], It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2018. [5] The film's distribution rights were purchased by The Orchard and MoviePass Ventures for US$3 million. Warren has re-enrolled in college and studies filmmaking in Philadelphia. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Speaking about American Animals, as well as MoviePass Ventures' other film Gotti, one independent studio head told Deadline Hollywood: "It used to be in distribution, we'd all gossip whether a studio was buying tickets to their own movie to goose their opening. [17] According to their own reports, MoviePass members made up 25–35% of the film's opening weekend audience. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Warren Lipka, Spencer Reinhard, Chas Allen, Eric Borsuk and Betty Jean Gooch all appear as themselves, along with Reinhard's parents, Allen's mother, Lipka's father, and one of the culprits' teachers.[7]. [8][9][10][11] The title comes from Eric Borsuk's memoir, which derives its name from a passage in On the Origin of Species, one of the books stolen by the gang, about animals dwelling in the cave systems of Kentucky;[12] this quote is featured at the beginning of the film. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Movie titles show they each were sentenced to seven years incarceration. In 2003 in Lexington, Kentucky, Spencer Reinhard is an art student who feels his life has no meaning and that he needs something exciting, even if tragic, in his life to inspire greater artistry. Upon returning to the U.S., he informs Spencer that they could make millions of dollars, much to their excitement. It is also revealed that Warren may have lied about going to Amsterdam, fabricating the story to get the others to agree to the heist. After noticing that there are too many people in the special collections library for the job to succeed, they abort the heist and retreat. So it's a clever movie, but not too clever. An epilogue describes their lives after prison.
there is an interesting question that lifts this film above the ordinary (which is apposite, as that's what these boys were trying to do). Warren Lipka (Evan Peters) seems a bad influence – a bit shiftless, a bit cocky, even though he is a gifted athlete on a scholarship to Kentucky University. Unable to add item to List. American Animals est un film réalisé par Bart Layton avec Evan Peters, Blake Jenner. The first would apply to the film, which is subtle and inventive about its cleverness; the second would apply to the four guys at the centre of this weird story, who are not really smart enough to see that stealing a rare book from a Kentucky university is a dumb thing to do. Each lesson offers a reading from The Burgess Animal Book for Children, a prompt for narration and art opportunities along with a list of picture books for younger audience and ideas for further study for older children. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Inevitably, the FBI raid their homes and arrest them. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Layton (The Imposter) does a terrific job maintaining balance between the elements. Le film est présenté au festival du film de Sundance 2018. "[18], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 187 reviews, and an average rating of 7.7/10.

This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. American Animals is a 2018 crime docudrama film written and directed by Bart Layton. It's the question of why four reasonably privileged young men would set fire to their own lives in this way? What makes this memoir so entertaining and unusual is that one of the college student knuckleheads involved in this fine art robbery also happens to be a gifted writer. Three of the conspirators want to give up, but Warren calls the library asking for a private appointment the next day. How would you do that? They bring in the more analytical accountancy student Eric (Jared Abrahamson) because they need his brains, and the super-jock Charles Allen II (Blake Jenner) because they need his money. Realizing that pulling off the heist will require more people, they enlist the help of childhood friends Eric Borsuk, who helps provide the logistics, and Chas Allen, who will be the getaway driver. Betty Jean Gooch, the librarian, still works at Transylvania University. In a panic, they drop and have to leave the biggest prizes, two enormous Audubon books comprising "The Birds of America". Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Warren is the film's Iago: the one who needs more than anything to do something big, something transformative, something that will shatter the dullness of his life. If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood, Killer Moms: 16 Bizarre True Crime Stories of Murderous Moms, The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands, The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife, Mitch, Please! Pour Spencer et Warren, deux fils de bonne famille, leur avenir semble déjà être tracé. So now we're in hybrid territory: it looks like a feature film but it has the real people as well, and director Bart Layton complicates their reliability, by presenting different versions of the same event. "―Publishers Weekly, “True crime heist tales almost inevitably include an idea that is simultaneously brilliant, crazy, and idiotic, and American Animals  is no different. Step by step, it moves from silly joke to real project. In each case, we also meet the real guys, whose interviews make the distinction between "reality" and "movie" that much starker. Disillusioned with freshman year of college, and determined to escape from their mundane Middle-American existences, the three hatch a plan to steal millions of dollars’ worth of artwork and rare manuscripts from a university museum.

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