Animal Kingdom (film)
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| Directed by | David Michôd |
| Produced by | Liz Watts |
| Written by | David Michôd |
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Ben Mendelsohn Joel Edgerton Guy Pearce Luke Ford Jacki Weaver Sullivan Stapleton James Frecheville |
| Music by | Antony Partos |
| Cinematography | Adam Arkapaw |
| Edited by | Luke Doolan |
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| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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113 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $6.8 million |
Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime film written and directed by David Michôd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, James Frecheville, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, and Sullivan Stapleton.
David Michôd's script was inspired by events which involved the Pettingill criminal family of Melbourne, Australia.
In 1991, two brothers Trevor Pettingill and Victor Peirce (along with two other men: Anthony Leigh Farrell and Peter David McEvoy) were acquitted in the 1988 shooting murder of two Victoria, Australia police officers.
The film was critically acclaimed. It received 36 awards and 39 nominations, and Jacki Weaver received multiple awards for her performance, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
After his mother overdoses, 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody asks his estranged grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, for help, and she invites him to move in with her. Smurf is the affectionate matriarch of a Melbourne crime family that uses her home as a base. Her home is also being watched by cops who are looking for the oldest son, Andrew "Pope" Cody, who is in hiding. The volatile middle brother, Craig, deals drugs successfully enough to have bought the house for his mother. The youngest brother, Darren, follows the lead of his siblings, while family friend "Baz" leads the gang, which specializes in armed robbery.
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