Based on a true story that shocked the nation in 1965, the film recounts one of the most shocking crimes ever committed against a single victim. Sylvia and Jennie Fae Likens, the two daughters of traveling carnival workers are left for an extended stay at the Indianapolis (3850 E. New York St. is hardly suburban, nor was it in 1965, by any stretch of the imagination.) home of single mother Gertrude Baniszewski and her six children. Times are tough, and Gertrude’s financial needs cause her to make this arrangement before realizing how the burden will push her unstable nature to a breaking point. What transpires in the next three months is both riveting and horrific, leaving one child dead and the rest scarred for life.
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March 28th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
What a brutality horrifying movie. An American Crime is so well acted…. I’m beside myself. A Must watch
April 13th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Horrific, and devastating.
What mad “grown-up” people do to children.
For their good……
And how out of fear, other children do some things, to save their skin.
Me to, I once told a lie, out of fear of my absolutely brutal father, and my brother suffered the consecuences of it.
I stil feel the pain of him being punished with the leg of a chair. I still hear him screaming, and shouting that he was innocent. And that was the truth.
Out of pain he admitted guild, and received even a harsher beeting.
That is the “love” of mad parents….
His love for me, turned towards hatred that day. I cannot blame him ….
It still feels like pain to me 47 years later….
Wake up and save children from their mad and crazy parents…