1960’larda Indiana’daki evinin bodrumunda genç bir kızı kilit altında tutan Gertrude Baniszewski isimli bir ev kadınının gerçek hikayesi.

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.