An American crime

An American crime

Director: Tommy O'Haver

Year: 2007

Awards:  It was nominated to Golden Globe     Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television, Primetime Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and WGA Award (TV)                Long Form – Original; but doesn’t won.

Main Characters: Ellen Page as Sylvia Likens, Catherine Keener as Gertrude Baniszewski , Ari Graynor as paula Baniszewski, Hayley McFarland as Jenny Likens, Romy Rosemont as Betty Likens, Jeremy Sumpter as Coy Hubbard, James Franco as Andy Gordon, Scout Taylor-Compton as Stephanie Baniszewski,          Hannah Leigh Dworkin as Shirley Baniszewski, Evan Peters as Ricky Hobbs.

Plot:  it’s a film based on a true story, is about two daughters (Sylvia and Betty Likens) of traveling carnival workers are left for an extended stay at the Indianapolis home of single mother Gertrude Baniszewski and her six children. Gertrude's financial needs cause her to make this arrangement before realizing how the burden will push her unstable nature to the point of enforcing and torturing Sylvia in a basement.

In my opinion this is a very good film because it shows how human 
nature can be carried to a breaking point, how a person can dehumanize
 another one only to justify its worst crimes until the point of not recognizing that 
what is doing is wrong. This film plays with the mind and emotions of its audience, 
it makes you think that every person has something very dark inside because if this 
mother who looked so reliable and calm could do something like that why couldn’t 
do anyone.