If Ellen Page ever worried that her roles in “Juno” and “Smart People” would too securely set her image as a feisty know-it-all, she chose well to appear in “An American Crime,” a film that manages to wrench all the placid innocence from her bones....

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Based on the true story of a murdered teen, the Tommy O'Haver-directed film walks the line between truth and exploitation for entertainment's sake. There is a lot of craft and some art in Showtime's "An American Crime," but I question whether the...
If there's a bleaker, more haunting movie than Showtime's "An American Crime," you don't want to watch it. You may not want to watch this one, either, especially if you're prone to nightmares. Gertrude, who has a houseful of her own kids, asthma...