

Animal Kingdom
A crime story
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.
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6.8/10
945 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $1M
- Language
- English
- drug dealer
- heroin
- trial
- melbourne, australia
- interrogation
- armed robbery
- neo-noir
- murder of a police officer
- female gangleader
- police custody
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival22 Jan 2010
- TheatricalR13 Aug 2010
United KingdomGB
- PremiereLeeds International Film Festival6 Nov 2010
- Theatrical1525 Feb 2011
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA15+3 Jun 2010
CanadaCA
- TheatricalR13 Aug 2010
ArgentinaAR
- PhysicalDVD23 Feb 2011
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1626 Nov 2010
- PhysicalDVD16 Mar 2011
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival27 Apr 2011
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical24 Feb 2011
FinlandFI
- Theatrical21 Jan 2011
FranceFR
- PremiereBeaune Film Festival2 Apr 2011
- Theatrical1626 Apr 2011
GermanyDE
- PhysicalDVD25 Mar 2011
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival5 Dec 2010
- Theatrical30 Jun 2011
Frequently asked questions
Animal Kingdom was released on 3 June 2010.
Audience reviews
3- A8/10
Andres Gomez
11/5/2014
Terrific movie and terrific performances, specially Jacki Weaver's Very well scripted and rolled.
- T8/10
The Movie Diorama
1/16/2020
Animal Kingdom unleashes an unfaltering roar across Australia. The animal kingdom, a hierarchical group of biological creatures that zoologically determine species that are predacious by nature or hunted down by those stronger than them. It is the laws of nature, Darwinism, that the mighty feed on the weak. Natural selection. We, specifically as human apex predators, do what we must in order to increase our survivabi…
- F6/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
8/4/2022
**A brutal film, where there are no nice people or good guys, but which tells us a good story, in a convincing and credible way.** I expected more from this film. It's good, it has an interesting history, but it's lukewarm and uncomfortable, and there's not much to arouse our sympathy. I've seen a lot of films, I'm not sure if this was the first Australian film I saw, but it was certainly the first Australian film…
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