Movie: Animal Kingdom

[Retriever Mama]

Powerful Australian drama. When his mother dies suddenly, a 17-year-old boy, Jay, turns to his estranged grandmother and uncles for a new place to live. Apparently his uncles were a notorious gang of bank robbers, but now find themselves out of business with the new police task force. One uncle has a family and is trying to get straight, one has turned to dealing drugs, one has turned to doing drugs and the final uncle...well, he's just crazy and dangerous. Jay has to decide if he wants to join this crime family or help the police task force that single him out as a possible way to bring them all down.

Australian writer-director David Michôd's first feature-length drama won the World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

5 STARS

[Bob Pr.]

Sounds very good, Thanks!! (Maybe somewhat like "City of God"? -- I posted a JL review of that in Oct. 2010.)

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