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Animal Kingdom

  • 20102010
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  • 1h 53m
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7.3/10
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Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, and James Frecheville in Animal Kingdom (2010)
Welcome to the Melbourne crime underworld, where tensions are on the brink of exploding between felons and renegade cops. The Cody brothers, a gang of armed robbers, are in the process of initiating their teenage nephew Joshua 'J' into their frightening world after the death of his mother and under the watchful eye of his matriarchal grandmother, Smurf.
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A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
58K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,780
781
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    • Director
      • David Michôd
    • Writer
      • David Michôd
    • Stars
      • James Frecheville
      • Guy Pearce
      • Joel Edgerton
    Top credits
    • Director
      • David Michôd
    • Writer
      • David Michôd
    • Stars
      • James Frecheville
      • Guy Pearce
      • Joel Edgerton
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 188User reviews
    • 261Critic reviews
    • 83Metascore
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 39 wins & 60 nominations total

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    James Frecheville in Animal Kingdom (2010)
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    Top cast

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    James Frecheville
    James Frecheville
    • Joshua 'J' Cody
    Guy Pearce
    Guy Pearce
    • Detective Senior Sgt Nathan Leckie
    Joel Edgerton
    Joel Edgerton
    • Barry 'Baz' Brown
    Bryce Lindemann
    • Paramedic #1
    Paul Smits
    • Paramedic #2
    Jacki Weaver
    Jacki Weaver
    • Janine 'Smurf' Cody
    Luke Ford
    Luke Ford
    • Darren Cody
    Sullivan Stapleton
    Sullivan Stapleton
    • Craig Cody
    Mirrah Foulkes
    Mirrah Foulkes
    • Catherine Brown
    Anthony Ahern
    • Armed Robbery Detective
    Justin Rosniak
    Justin Rosniak
    • Detective Randall Roache
    Michael Valamios
    Michael Valamios
    • Hood #1
    • (as Michael Vice)
    Chris Weir
    Chris Weir
    • Hood #2
    Laura Wheelwright
    • Nicky Henry
    Sarah Nguyen
    • Waitress
    Lucia Cai
    • Cashier
    Ben Mendelsohn
    Ben Mendelsohn
    • Andrew 'Pope' Cody
    Ann Michôd
    • Shopper
    • Director
      • David Michôd
    • Writer
      • David Michôd
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    • Trivia
      Prior to filming, Ben Mendelsohn and Luke Ford made a conscious decision not to speak to each other as actors to help with their portrayal of two antagonistic brothers.
    • Quotes

      Detective Randall Roache: Look I know you got a problem Janine, but I don't see how this mess your boys are in has got anything to do with me. So if you've called me in here to see if there are some strings I can pull in your way of course. Is that what this is about?

      Janine Cody: Hey Randall, before you go on, this boy who's currently being looked after, tell me if you agree with this, this boy who's being looked after, he knows who you are. And you know how these things go they're gonna ask him all sorts of questions about everything he's ever seen or done. Everyone he's ever met, the whole schmozzle. And you've done some bad things sweetie, haven't you? I want this part to be clear this is not about you doing me a favor or me blackmailing you or anything like that. It's just a bad situation for everyone. Ezra here's got the address, it shouldn't be too hard to set up a raid on the house. There'd be reasonable grounds, what with all the strange activity, the comings and goings, day and night, one of the neighbors might've seen a gun or something. This is your area of expertise, I'm not trying to tell you how to suck eggs. What do you think?

      Detective Randall Roache: I really don't see how anything can be done, Janine.

      Janine Cody: Randall, I feel sick about this. I'm not happy at all, not one little bit. But we do what we have to do, we do what we must. Just because we don't wanna do something doesn't mean it can't be done.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Summer Special 2010/11 (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      All Out of Love
      Written by Graham Russell & Clive Davis

      Performed by Air Supply

      (c) All Rights Reserved on behalf of Nottsongs

      Administered by Warner Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd

      By kind permission of Warner CHappell Music Australia Pty Ltd

      Courtesy of Big Time Phonograph Recording Co Pty Ltd

      Under license from EMI Music Australia Pty Ltd

    User reviews188

    Review
    Top review
    9/10
    Great crime story
    After his mother dies, 17 year old J comes to live with his estranged grandmother and uncles, a family of felons. He enters the animal kingdom of suburban crime and stumbles through a minefield of sociopaths, cops and lawyers, all claiming to protect him. J soon learns though that trust means nothing when people are desperate.

    This is a dramatic, well-made film that haunts the mind. Highly cinematic, meticulously crafted, thrilling and poignant in equal measure. The director emphasises realistic dialogue, multi-dimensional characters and underplays violence. Still, the film is palpably tense, there are scenes that will leave you shaking, even where there is no bloody payoff. As the body count builds even a car slowly reversing down a driveway becomes a menacing sight. The ending is satisfying.

    The film is very well acted, young Frecheville keeps it natural and holds his own amongst titanic performances from veteran Aussies. Mendelsohn as Uncle Pope is particularly brilliant, dressed at Christmas from Lowes, this dorky suburban thug bullies the weak (including his passive younger brother Darren, unhappily entrenched in a life he cannot escape from), and who's confrontational behaviour springs from a deep well of paranoia. His maladjusted moral compass so skewed he frequently crosses into psychopathic territory. And yet he remains all too human, he's a mundane monster. Weaver too, leaves a memorable impression, where revelations abound in the film's third act.

    My only complaint is that I would have liked to have seen a courtroom scene that is left to the imagination, we see corrupt police in action, why not a demonstration of hypocrisy in the justice system too? But this is a minor whinge in the grand scale of this ambitious story.
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    • Where can I find the music from Animal Kingdom, especially the song as Pope watches Nicky on the couch?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 3, 2010 (Australia)
    • Country of origin
      • Australia
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site (Australia)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Vương Quốc Tội Phạm
    • Filming locations
      • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    • Production companies
      • Porchlight Films
      • Screen Australia
      • Film Victoria
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • A$5,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,044,039
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $61,968
      • Aug 15, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $7,209,912
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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