Nobody wants to be ordinary.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Barry Keoghan, Ann Dowd, Jared Abrahamson, Ude Kier, Drew Starkey, Lara Grice |
| Director |
Bart Layton |
| Screenplay | Bart Layton |
| Music | Anne Nikitin |
| Cinematography | Ole Bratt Birkeland |
| Editing | Nick Fenton, Chris Gill, Julian Hart |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2018 |
| Produced by | Film4, New Amsterdam Film Company, RAW |
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| Genre | Crime thriller |
| Language | Stong impact, frequent crude language used to demean, in anger and in general conversation. |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Moderate impact, infrequent violence without blood-letting is present. It includes shocking and tying up of an innocent, aged woman while she is screaming and crying. The scene is upsetting and disturbing. |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None (sic) |
| Comments | Contains scenes of Criminal Techniques. |
| These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines. | |
| R: Restricted | Rated R for language throughout, some drug use and brief crude/sexual material |
| Runtime | 116 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
| Suggested age limit 15 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
Violence |
Sex |
Language |
Consumerism |
Drinking, drugs, smoking |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Mpho Rantao  True story about a bizarre heist. | 15 |  |
| Cape Times Michael O'Sullivan A complex real-life crime drama. | 10 |  |
| 24.com Ilan Preskovsky I had no expectations of the film going in but it's easily one of my favourites of the year so far. It will presumably only have a small theatrical release but it's a film you really don't want to miss. | 20 | |
| Metacritic.com 35 critics | 13 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 93 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer American Animals tangles with a number of weighty themes, but never at the expense of delivering a queasily compelling true crime thriller. | 17 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 15 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Smart, energetic tale of attempted heist; cursing, violence. | 15 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 15 users | 17 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 612 users | 18 | |
| IMDB 1149 Netizens | 15 | |
Average .. 77% | 15 | |