American Animals

American Animals
American Animals
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Bart Layton
Written by	Bart Layton
Produced by	Derrin Schlesinger; Katherine Butler; Dimitri Doganis; Mary Jane Skalski;
Starring	Evan Peters; Barry Keoghan; Blake Jenner; Jared Abrahamson; Udo Kier; Ann Dowd;
Cinematography	Ole Bratt Birkeland
Edited by	Nick Fenton; Chris Gill; Julian Hart;
Music by	Anne Nikitin
Production; companies	AI Film; Film4 Productions; RAW; Lava Bear Films;
Distributed by	The Orchard; MoviePass Ventures (United States); STXinternational (United Kingdom);
Release dates	January 19, 2018 (Sundance); June 1, 2018 (United States); September 7, 2018 (United Kingdom);
Running time	116 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; United States;
Language	English
Box office	$4.1 million

American Animals is a 2018 docudrama heist film written and directed by Bart Layton. Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, and Ann Dowd, it is an account of the Transylvania University book heist which took place at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 2004. The film cuts between interview segments of the real-life people involved in the heist and actors playing out the same events.

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 generally favorable reviews from critics, particularly for its screenplay, acting, use of unreliable narrators, and an unconventional storytelling structure that fused real-life characters and actors representing those characters.

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