L’histoire vraie de Gertrude Baniszewski, femme au foyer, qui dans l’Indiana des années 60 séquestra dans sa cave une adolescente du nom de Sylvia Likens…

Elliot Page gives a nerve-shredding performance in this provocative true-crime tale first released on Mother’s Day. It was a wilfully subversive bit of counter-programming on the part of its producers, given An American Crime features the most monstrous maternal figure since Mommie Dearest.