In American Animals, a cross between documentary and fictional account, Evan Peters and Blake Jenner respectively play Warren Lipka and Chas Allen, two students who team up with two other friends to try and pull off a daring heist: specifically stealing John James Audubon’s Birds of America and Charles Darwin’s_On the Origin of Species _from the Special Collections Library at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
The movie is a fictionalized take on a crazy true story, explaining why Bart Layton didn’t want his actors meeting the real men involved with the crime, but ultimately Peters just couldn’t help himself.