American Animals Film True Story

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American animals film true story. American Animals Review. Directed by Bart Layton. 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 tells the strange true story of a group of intelligent privileged and educated college kids who plan a heist thats so outrageous and frankly stupid that they couldnt. The words This not a true story appear on-screen at the start only to have the not. As wild as the plot is its actually based on a true story from 2005.

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. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal. True story behind movie American Animals from Herald-Leader archives Lexington Herald Leader.

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. True story behind American Animals - real-life tale of how four friends bungled 12m heist. The robbery is now the basis of the film American Animals which is set for release in June.

American Animals tells the story of four friends who after a visit to Transylvania University in. American Animals directed by Bart Layton tells the story behind the so-called Transy Book Heist mostly through reenactments. This heist movie mixes boldness and buffoonery as it follows four college students who stole priceless books from Transylvania University.

In the age of alternative facts is this the way ahead for the documentary. 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. Spencer Reinhard Warren Lipka Eric Borsuk and Chas Allen are four friends who live an ordinary existence in Kentucky.