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American Animals

Genre
Drama
Rating
R
Released
1 June, 2018
American Animals

American Animals is a 2018 crime docudrama film written and directed by Bart Layton. Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, and Ann Dowd, it follows four college friends who plan a heist of their library. It tells the story of an actual heist which took place at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 2004. American Animals premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2018. The film was theatrically released in the United States on June 1, 2018 by The Orchard and MoviePass Ventures. Among other awards the film won the Junior Jury Award at The Montclair Film Festival. It received critical acclaim, particularly for its screenplay, acting, use of unreliable narrators and an unconventional storytelling structure that fused real-life characters and actors representing those characters.

Direktor Bart Layton
Produced by Derrin Schlesinger, Katherine Butler, Dimitri Doganis, Mary Jane Skalski
Writer(s) Bart Layton
Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, Udo Kier, Ann Dowd
Music Anne Nikitin
Cinematography Ole Bratt Birkeland
Edited by Nick Fenton, Chris Gill, Julian Hart
Distributed by The Orchard, MoviePass Ventures (United States), STXinternational (United Kingdom)
Released January 19, 2018 (Sundance), June 1, 2018 (United States), September 7, 2018 (United Kingdom)
Running time 116 minutes
Country United Kingdom, United States
Language English
Box office $3.5 million

Über American Animals

Crime drama based on the true story in which four young men attempt a library heist at Transylvania University in Kentucky.

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The movie premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2018. Distribution rights were bought by The Orchard and MoviePass Ventures. 

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