A crime story
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and earnest.
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Aug 20226/10
**A brutal film, where there are no nice people or good guys, but which tells us a good story, in a convincing and credible way.** I expected more from this film. It's good, it has an interesting history, but it's lukewarm and uncomfortable, and there's not much to arouse our sympathy. I've seen a lot of films, I'm not sure if this was the first Australian film I saw, but it was certainly the first Australian film that I knew was Australian at the time I was watching it. Inspired by a real-life situation, the film creates a story in which the police seek to capture the members of a family well immersed in Melbourne's criminality. To achieve this, they seek the help of the most balanced person in that family: a young teenager. The movie is good, the script is well written, and it has a lot of very good twists, but it's not a nice or pleasant movie. The characters are very harsh and unsympathetic, and violence and crime are a significant part of their lives, in a way that seems, almost, like a “family business”, proudly transmitted. Josh, the protagonist, is perhaps the one who will better move our sympathy, even though he is too introverted to create good chemistry with the audience
Read the whole review on TMDB - The Movie Dioramaon TMDB · Jan 20208/10
Animal Kingdom unleashes an unfaltering roar across Australia. The animal kingdom, a hierarchical group of biological creatures that zoologically determine species that are predacious by nature or hunted down by those stronger than them. It is the laws of nature, Darwinism, that the mighty feed on the weak. Natural selection. We, specifically as human apex predators, do what we must in order to increase our survivability odds. For the Cody family, a familial crime syndicate based in Melbourne, that results in suppressing even the most friendly of noises. Their successful drug-distribution has enabled them to purchase a myriad of luxuries in life, including a quaint abode where seventeen year-old Josh stays after his mother overdoses on heroin. With no alternative shelter, he nestles into the heart of the Cody family tree, commanded by the sweet innocent matriarch who’d do anything and everything to see her boys home and safe. Michôd based this fictitious story on the Pettingill family, where a pair of brothers were acquitted for slaughtering two police officers at point blank range. Offering an apt yet palpable string of tension that questions the utilisation of firearms, a measure
Read the whole review on TMDB - Andres Gomezon TMDB · Nov 20148/10
Terrific movie and terrific performances, specially Jacki Weaver's Very well scripted and rolled.
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Cast
- Ben MendelsohnAndrew 'Pope' Cody
- Joel EdgertonBarry 'Baz' Brown
- Guy PearceNathan Leckie
- Luke FordDarren Cody
- Jacki WeaverJanine 'Smurf' Cody
- Sullivan StapletonCraig Cody
- James FrechevilleJoshua 'J' Cody
- Dan WyllieEzra White
- Anthony HayesDetective Justin Norris
- Laura WheelwrightNicky Henry
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- David MichôdDirector
- David MichôdScreenplay
- Adam ArkapawDirector of Photography
- Antony PartosOriginal Music Composer
- Luke DoolanEditor
- Liz WattsProducer
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