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.
| Director | 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 |
About American Animals
Crime drama based on the true story in which four young men attempt a library heist at Transylvania University in Kentucky.
Achievement of American Animals
The movie premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2018. Distribution rights were bought by The Orchard and MoviePass Ventures.
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Latest information about American Animals updated on July 28 2021.
