Animal Kingdom

losthorizon

Saw this featured on the programme "Talking Movies" and it was a winner at the Sundance Festival. Its set in the Melbourne Underworld of the 80s /90s when there was a problem with gun crime. Apparently its got great reviews.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5BsYRmMfus

Australia produces some corkers every now and then - Lantana being one such.

Gerty

Put the barbie on Angie.

patch

Saw this tonight, very impressive movie.
If Micheal Mann had started off making a low key Aussie crime-family flick, this would be it.
Guy Pearce hasn't been this good in years.

JP Liz V1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313092/

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNszOl14AWg

I only heard about this movie recently since Jacki Weaver scored an Oscar nomination for it.

It also stars Joel Edgerton and Guy Pearce

pickarooney

Do any of the characters from Underbelly show up in this or is it fictional?

johnny_ultimate

Saw this today and must admit I'm impressed

It's an engaging, well directed and excellently acted piece of work. It's grim stuff on occasion, but the violence and actions of the characters feel very real and very credible. Ben Mandelson is particularly worth singling out, giving a perfectly judged jittery and strange performance. The cinematography is as gloomy as can be, although some very memorable scenes and moments visually.

It's a well paced, offbeat crime thriller, and definitely worthy of two hours of your time IMO.

Zillah

I'm not a huge fan of crime-family sort of stories, but I just wanted to say that the mother in this was amazing. It only slowly dawns on you how interesting her character is.

arsenallegend

my film of the year so far. great performance from Ben Mendelsohn as Pope the crazy older brother and Jacki weaver as the mother. I agree its very michael mann but nothing wrong with that.

basillarkin

I have it, just have not got around to watch it, will watch it tomorrow night.

bnt

Finally got to see this earlier this evening. I agree with previous comments about Pope: "feral" in that particularly Australian way. Like a wild animal, his stupidity makes him all the more dangerous, but we can also see the part his mother played in making Pope and his brothers who they were.

I had a fair idea of how it was going to end -

Pope gets "put down" by young Joshua, like the wild animal he is

- but I didn't think the filmmakers would have the bottle to go through with it. They did. :eek:

Raekwon

Just after watching this and thoroughly enjoyed it. As other posters have already mentioned the mother was a very interesting character but 'Pope' was the show stealer. I particularly liked the scenes where

he was asking his younger brother if was gay in the kitchen or when he was staring at Josh's girlfriend asleep the sofa with the song "I'm all out of love" playing on the TV in the background. I thought those scenes perfectly portrayed his psychotic personalty very early on in the film

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Overall though I'd highly recommend this film and I'd watch it again in a heart beat.

Delta2113

Finally got to see this on TG4 and good old Daniel Robinson (Neighbours) was in it.

Guy Pearce was excellent as usual.