Stealing them seems like a great way to raise some money. On the freshman campus tour, Spencer notices that John James Audubon's magnificent series of nature prints, The Birds of America, along with a trove of other antique volumes, is under very light guard in the special collections library of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he is a student. Irish actor Barry Keoghan ( Dunkirk) portrays Spencer Reinhard, a callow suburban youth who idealizes great artists but can't quite do it himself. Layton's ostensibly playful pic, based on an actual 2004 walk-right-in, walk-right-out-with-the-loot daylight robbery, could conceivably fit into the same teenage-prankster-popcorn groove as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, if we were to swap out upper-middle-class schoolboys in the Chicago suburbs in favor of a quartet of goofball college students from Kentucky. But there's a bit more to writer-director Layton's clever, stylish true-crime yarn about four lads and their grandiose idea to steal a priceless collection of art prints and rare books from a university library-with no previous experience at that kind of work. Here's a one-sentence headline-style synopsis for Bart Layton's American Animals: Rookies in Over Their Heads in Art Heist.
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