American Animals Film True Story

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.

American animals film true story. 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. In the Sundance-acclaimed heist movie American Animals director Bart Layton used the actual men behind the crime to tell the story. American Animals differs from The Imposter in that it is lightly fictionalized.

With Spencer Reinhard Warren Lipka Eric Borsuk Chas Allen. This heist movie mixes boldness and buffoonery as it follows four college students who stole priceless books from Transylvania University. Sprinkled throughout are interviews with the real-life robbers.

Made even more engaging by its brilliant format. The film intercuts the portrayal of an infamous heist with interviews from the actual people. 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.

As wild as the plot is its actually based on a true story from 2005. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal. True story behind movie American Animals from Herald-Leader archives Lexington Herald Leader.

American Animals is a fascinating true crime story. American Animals tells the story of four friends who after a visit to Transylvania University in. American Animals tells the story of a real-world book heist by four college students.

The robbery is now the basis of the film American Animals which is set for release in June. Spencer Reinhard Warren Lipka Eric Borsuk and Chas Allen are four friends who live an ordinary existence in Kentucky. Save this story for later.