AN AMERICAN CRIME

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

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.