![]() ![]() Evan Peters as the excitable and sketchy Warren, owns his delicious role, especially when steering the reluctant dreamer Spencer (Barry Keoghan) to the point of no return. This is the thrill of their lives, and makes for irresistible film. Seeing their fair share of heist movies, the greedy group hatch an elaborate plan to snatch a big bird book from the poorly guarded nest. ![]() Solution: robbery! Seems the campus library has a twelve million dollar book, and the only obstacle is an elderly librarian. Spencer, Warren, Eric and Chas, (yes Chas), are privileged white boys getting their feet wet at University, itching for the action adult life has promised, which of course, is lacking. "American Animals" seems too goofy for fact, but as usual, fiction loses out in the strange category. That's part of the fun in recreating a 2004 Kentucky teenage heist: having the now grown ups involved, recount the events, separated by distance from each other, and time from the deed. ![]() True story this, though the quartet of perpetrators of the most audacious literary crime have trouble keeping their story straight. ![]()
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