Dog Pound (2010)

Three juvenile delinquents are sentenced to a correctional facility where they encounter gang violence, death, and harassment from staff and other inmates.

Director:

Kim Chapiron

Writers:

Jeremie Delon, Kim Chapiron

Stars:

Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel, Matthew Morales

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Adam Butcher	...	Butch
Shane Kippel	...	Davis
Matthew Morales	...	Angel (as Mateo Morales)
Slim Twig	...	Max
Taylor Poulin	...	Banks
Dewshane Williams	...	Frank
Lawrence Bayne	...	Goodyear
Trent McMullen	...	Sands
Jeff McEnery	...	Loony
Bryan Murphy	...	Eckersley
Michael Morang	...	Harrel
Clayton Joseph	...	Kuruk
Alexander Conti	...	Sal
William Ellis	...	Meakin
Michael States Jr.	...	Gahege (as Michael Jr. States)

Storyline

When 17-year-old Butch is sent to the Enola Vale Youth Correctional Center in Montana for blinding an abusive correctional officer, he brings with him a deep-seated intolerance for injustices and a penchant for meting out retributions on his own. No one had better mess with him or anyone else while he's there. Unfortunately, many do.

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Plot Keywords:

male nudity | strip search | teenage boy | juvenile detention | juvenile delinquent | 

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Taglines:

Fighting Back Is The Only Way Out

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film is a re-make of the 1979 British film "Scum".

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Goofs

On the chalkboard, when Butch is brought into a meeting to talk about anger issues, the word "aggression" is spelled as "agression".

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Quotes

[first lines]
Davis' Girl: Ah! Not some of that shit.
Davis: Shut the fuck up, bitch!
Davis' Girl: Don't call me a bitch.

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Connections

Remake of Scum (1991)

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Soundtracks

Lonesome Moon
Composed by Darrell Wayne Perry/Jerry Marcum
(p) & © Bruton Music Ltd
Courtesy of Universal Publishing Production Music France

User Reviews

Cinematic experience in adrenaline

Straight to the point: one of these movies where the plot is very basic, the characters easily identifiable; interestingly, two strong points; yet despite all the conventionality, this style of realistic movies never suffers from a lack of imagination. It is rather the crude, raw scenes that are sought out, actors with faces that tell a story, a fluid motion from scene to scene without all the pretentious cinematic effects (symbols, metaphors, angles, music etc...).

Like I said, straight to the point.

And where this movie might lack in depth, it solidifies the viewers' expectations all through the one channel of ADRENALINE. It's violent, raw, vivid...such a sober experience through the scope of tale-telling art.

Some flaws will appear clearly by the end of the movie. Perhaps a rushed scene or two - a little more footage or info in the end, that culminating to the point of the viewer looking back and asking himself how this movie stormed past his eyes so fast, in the method of a one-dimensional scene-after-scene procedure.

This film is genuinely "lived". The power-trip it represents and authenticity factors give this about a 7.

Details

Country:

France Canada UK

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

23 June 2010 (France)

Also Known As:

Dog Pound

Filming Locations:

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

EUR4,830,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$465,725

Company Credits

Production Co:

Partizan Films, Partizan, Grana Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1