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Animals

Some friendships are wild at heart

5.5(56)20191h 49m2

Longtime friends and party lovers Laura and Tyler navigate life and love in Dublin, Ireland but find themselves drifting apart when Laura becomes engaged.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • dublin, ireland
  • female friendship
  • woman director

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Sophie Hyde

Produced in

Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSundance Film Festival28 Jan 2019
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical152 Aug 2019
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereAdelaide Film Festival Pop-Up5 Apr 2019
    • Theatrical12 Sept 2019
    • PremiereDarwin International Film Festival21 Sept 2019
    • Digital / OTTMA15+1 Nov 2019
  • IrelandIE

    • Digital / OTT152 Aug 2019
  • New ZealandNZ

    • Digital / OTT161 Aug 2020
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical1222 Apr 2021

Frequently asked questions

Animals was released on 2 August 2019.

Audience reviews

2
  • S

    SWITCH.

    6/7/2019

    8/10

    ‘Animals’ would have been better served had it had the guts to go as dark as the source material, instead of teetering on the edge. Gritty but not too gritty, the film fails to decide which relationship is its focus, yet it still manages to engage you enough not to truely care while voyeuristically observing this modern right of passage of identity, resilience and the hard choices we have to make. - Jess Fenton R…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    5/29/2024

    5/10

    This starts off quite strongly with the dynamic between "Laura" (Holliday Grainger) and "Tyler" (Alia Shawkat) tight and nippy - if largely hedonistic and alcohol fuelled. Once a love interest develops between the pair though, and the latter's sister "Jean" (Amy Molloy) deliberately gets pregnant, the body clocks start ticking and the pace of the film slows to that of a glacier as the sharpness of the first 20 minute…

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