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American Animals | Sensational, gripping, insane

Published:Monday | June 4, 2018 | 12:00 AM
American Animals takes the thrill of the heist genre and turns it inside out.

This is the incredible but mostly true story of four confounded young men who mistook their lives for a movie and attempted one of the most daring heists in US history. American Animals takes the thrill of the heist genre and turns it inside out, blurring the line between truth and fiction, in a wild story of money, movies and the search for relevance and meaning.

American Animals is directed by writer Bart Layton; produced by Katherine Butler, Dimitri Doganis, Derrin Schlesinger, and Mary Jane Skalski. The cast includes Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, Ann Dowd, and Udo Kier.