Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom

Joel Edgerton as Barry 'Baz' Brown and Mirrah Foulkes as Catherine Brown. Photo by Narelle Sheean, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.

Animal Kingdom (2010)

Opened: 08/13/2010 Limited

Limited08/13/2010
Sunshine Cinema08/13/2010 - 09/23/201042 days
Arclight/Holly...08/13/2010 - 09/21/201040 days
Laemmle's Fall...08/20/2010 - 09/02/201014 days
Cinema Village...09/24/2010 - 10/07/201014 days
Laemmle's Moni...09/24/2010 - 09/30/20107 days
Laemmle's Clar...09/24/2010 - 09/30/20107 days
Laemmle's Musi...12/24/2010 - 01/27/201135 days
Cinema Village...12/24/2010 - 12/30/20107 days
DVD01/18/2011
Quad Cinema/NYC01/28/2011 - 02/10/201114 days
Sunset 5/LA01/28/2011 - 02/10/201114 days

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Genre: Australian Crime Drama

Rated: R for violence, drug content and pervasive language.

Synopsis

Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. The Wild West played out on the city's streets.

Armed robber Pope Cody (BEN MENDELSOHN) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry 'Baz' Brown (JOEL EDGERTON), wants out of the game, recognizing that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope's younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody (SULLIVAN STAPLETON), is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade - the true cash cow of the modern criminal fraternity - while the youngest Cody brother, Darren (LUKE FORD), naively navigates his way through this criminal world - the only world his family has ever known.

And into this world arrives their nephew, Joshua 'J' Cody (JAMES FRECHEVILLE).

Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf (JACKI WEAVER), mother to the Cody boys.

J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon discovers, this world is far larger and more menacing than he could ever imagine.

When tensions between family and police reach a bloody peak, J finds himself at the center of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns the family upside down, and which also threatens to ensnare innocent bystanders such as his girlfriend, Nicky (LAURA WHEELWRIGHT).

One senior cop, Nathan Leckie (GUY PEARCE), must lure J into the police fold and then shepherd him through a complex minefield of witness protection, corrupt cops, slippery lawyers and a paranoid and vengeful underworld.

J comes to realize that in order to survive he must determine how the game is played - he must somehow choose his place in this cunning and brutal animal kingdom. He must work out where he fits.

 

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