American Animals

Best friends Spencer and Warren, two intelligent but aimless young Kentucky college students, decide to rob the Special Collections Library at their school simply because they can. What begins as an outlandish exercise of their imaginations and a testament to their organization skills, eventually turns into the real thing, and the young men realize they may be in over their heads.

Bart Layton's feature debut is a stylish and cleverly self-reflexive ode to American crime cinema. Based on a (mostly) true story, the film offers a smart dialogue and a unique narrative structure.