“It launched careers across the board, and stands tall as a classic piece of Australian crime cinema”
Filmink
“It’s still amazing for me after a number of years, to see the effect that it had on a whole number of careers.”
Director David Michod
“I was ready for retirement when suddenly David Michod made the call…the siren call. I was more surprised than anyone.”
Jacki Weaver
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“It launched careers across the board, and stands tall as a classic piece of Australian crime cinema: let’s look back on the making and legacy of 2010’s mesmerising Animal Kingdom.” – Filmink
Celebrate the 10 Year Anniversary of an Australian Crime Story
Following the death of his mother, 17-year-old Joshua 'J' Cody (newcomer James Frecheville) moves in with his doting grandmother, Smurf (Jacki Weaver), and her three criminal sons-the Cody boys. The eldest, "Pope" (Ben Mendelsohn) is an armed robber, in hiding from a cadre of renegade detectives. Then there's Craig (Sullivan Stapleton), a successful but volatile drug dealer, and the youngest, Darren (Luke Ford), who naïvely follows his brothers' lead.
Just as Pope's business partner and best mate, Barry Brown (Joel Edgerton), decides that he wants out, tensions between the Codys and the police explode. J finds himself at the centre of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns his family upside down and throws him directly into the path of senior homicide detective, Nathan Leckie (Guy Pearce).
Animal Kingdom is a powerful crime drama that tells the story of a tense battle between a criminal family and the police and of the ordinary lives caught in the middle.
Strong violence, drug use, coarse language | Runtime: 108mins
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