American Animals Book Review. Bart layton’s movie tells a true story, more or less, with an emphasis on the stories that the characters tell themselves, and the inevitable trouble that ensues. Based on a botched 2004 robbery, layton’s script concerns spencer reinhard (the brilliant barry keoghan), an art student with notions.

1, 2019 kirkus reviews issue: That like darwin's evolution, four young american men, coming from a comfortable middle class, make a survival choice to rob a library of treasured books like originals of audubon's birds of america and darwin's origin of the species. According to the author, the book is the “big history” of two lost worlds, both of which were destroyed by humans.

Documentarian bart layton blurs the line between fact and fiction in his compelling heist drama.

“american animals,” bloom from that wreckage. Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in u.s. They head off to colleges in the same town. Written and directed by bart.