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An American Crime

The true story of a child's punishment that became a woman's crime.

Rating 7.3 / 10Release July 27, 2007Runtime 97 min

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

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