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.
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Is there domestic violence?
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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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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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aiwxo
Grown woman forces a young teenage girl to insert a glass bottle inside of herself infant of a group of other children. The act is not shown but is spoken about, faces shown, and dialogue is seen between flashback and court room. The glass bottle falls and shatters signifying the act is done.
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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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Is someone tortured?
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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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msegirls
Pushed down stairs
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Is someone kidnapped?
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lrrr
Someone is being held against their will
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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marlee1164
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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Does someone die by suicide?
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Are there abortions?
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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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