An American Crime premiers tonight on Showtime, with Ellen Page playing Sylvia Likens (Likens was tortured and killed in a basement in Indiana in 1965).

It is also on Showtime at other times. This should be harrowing, disturbing, and I expect Page to be superb.

Times:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0802948/

Plot:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0802948/plotsummary

I saw it last night. I give it a B at best.

An American Crime is very much “tamed down” from the case studies on the torture and death of Sylvia Likens. Ellen Page’s performance/role was good—it was not great. Her role was that of a supporting actress, imho. I would not recommend buying the dvd when it is available. Rent it instead if you have an interest in it and then buy it if you like it.

Page’s performance/role in Hard Candy is her finest perfomance thus far, imho (yes, including Juno).

Juno sucked. Although I blame Jason Reitman more than anyone. I still like Page.

Juno sucked. Although I blame Jason Reitman more than anyone. I still like Page.

imho, Page's performance in Hard Candy is riveting, intense, and brilliant. If you have not seen it, you might think about renting it.

I watched An American Crime again. I now give it, at best, a C. What a major disappointment...

I've not seen Juno yet.

Juno sucked. Although I blame Jason Reitman more than anyone. I still like Page.

Finally saw it (unfortunately) and I agree with you: Juno sucked.

an american crime freaked me out. i had no idea what the movie was about and just began watching it, became absorbed and then cried quietly in the corner for the remainder of the night. :|

in all seriousness, i did have nightmares that night. :hmm: stuff like that really does freak me out. :(

Finally saw it (unfortunately) and I agree with you: Juno sucked.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek7::eek7::eek3::eek3:

Juno was brilliant. one of the best films i've seen int he last year.

:nonono::nonono::nonono:

seekerofvisions,

An American Crime was disappointing to me. Perhaps it was because I have read a couple of non-fiction books about what the sadistic witch—Gertrude Baniszewski—and her more-than-willing cohorts did to Sylvia (and to her sister, Jenny) in 1965 and the movie isn't accurate in its display of the sheer, raw terror of the actual events. The movie has been "tamed down" imho.

Purchase The Girl Next Door (2007), the DVD based upon Ketchum’s fictional account of those same events. It ain't "tamed down."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830558/

but, american crime freaked me out. :( i doubt i'd want to watch an even more realistic and bizarre account of the story.