An American Crime
Movie • 2007 • Crime
ReportThe true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
This movie contains 30 potentially triggering events.
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Anonymous
The movie is based on the real life child abuse and murder of Sylvia Likens.
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ReziRose
Gertrude abuses prescription medication.
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Are animals abused?
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I would say yes but it’s fast enough that if you blink you will miss it
I didn’t like hearing the dog sad though woofing outside
I didn’t like hearing the dog sad though woofing outside
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Seenit
She is raped with a glass coke bottle.
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msegirls
Not on screen, but you see right before it happens and right after it happens
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Is someone burned alive?
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Sylvia is burned with cigarettes in multiple scenes and is branded in one scene.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Sylvia is forced to put a coke bottle in her vagina. We don't see her actually do it, but we see her facial expressions.
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Sylvia is subject to torture ranging from being viciously spanked to raped with a bottle to tattooed by locals
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Pushed down stairs
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Someone is being held against their will
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Not self inflicted but it is shown that Sylvia is not given anything to eat or drink while being kept in the basement.
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disorderlygoth
there isn’t an abortion, but two of the characters briefly talk about it
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Is there sexual content?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
There are a lot of uses of the word "slut," and a character is tortured in sexual ways.
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