An American Crime (2007)

Catherine Keener stars in this disturbing story based on actual events from 1965. When the daughter (JUNO's Ellen Page) of two carnival acts is left under the care of Gertrude Baniszewski (Keener), she becomes the unfortunate victim of the single mother's tortured and abusive mind.

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Gertrude Baniszewski (Catherine Keener) leek een gewone huismoeder met zeven kinderen. Ondertussen had zij gedurende de jaren '60 een tienermeisje (Ellen Page) in haar kelder opgesloten. Volgens Officier van Justitie Leroy New was dit de gruwelijkste misdaad die ooit in de staat Indiana gepleegd was.

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In October 1991, a dying tropical hurricane from Bermuda collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes, resulting in a "perfect storm" of previously unknown destructive impact that resulted in 100-foot waves; tragically, the crew of a fishing boat was lost in the midst of the fearsome storm. Based on the best-selling book by Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm tells the story of the ship's brave and hard-working crew. Billy Tyne (George Clooney), captain of the Andrea Gail, hasn't had much luck finding catch on his most recent trips to sea, and with money short, he and his crew -- Bob Shatford (Mark Wahlberg), ...
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Dale Murphy (John C. Reilly), and David Sullivan (William Fichtner) set out again when they hear that the fish are running. Billy's hunch proves correct, but when the ship's refrigeration system goes haywire, they have to return to shore as quickly as possible before the fish spoil, sending them into the middle of the worst storm in history. The supporting cast includes Mary Elziabeth Mastrantonio, Diane Lane, Bob Gunton, and Karen Allen; Wolfgang Petersen, whose breakthrough film was the aquatic wartime drama Das Boot, directed.
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October 1991. It was "the perfect storm" — a tempest that may happen only once in a century — a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour (193 kph), the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat headed towards its hellish center.

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