Eldest son and armed robber, Andrew'Pop' Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding from a gang of renegade detectives. Middle brother Craig (Sullivan Stapleton) is a successful but volatile drug dealer, whilst the youngest Cody, Darren (Luke Ford) , naïvely) follows his elder brothers' lead. Just as Pope's business partner and best friend, Barry Brown (Joel Edgerton), decides that he wants our of the game, recognising that their days of old-school banditry are all but over, tensions between the family and the police explode.
J finds himself at the centre of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns his family upside down and which throws him directly into the path of senior homicide detective, Nathan Leckie (Guy Pearce).
Animal Kingdom is a powerful crime drama exploring the tense battle between a criminal family and the police, and the ordinary lives caught in the middle.
Animal Kingdom is the debut of writer/director David Michôd whose previous short films have screened extensively internationally and in Australia , including the multi-award winning Crossbow. And AFI award-winning writer, Michôd also wrote the screenplay for this project.
Animal Kingdom is presented by Screen Australia and Porchlight Films, in association with Film Victoria, Screen NSW, Fulcrum Media Finance, Showtime Australia and Madman Entertainment in association with Jetty Distribution.
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