Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime drama film written and directed by David Michôd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, James Frecheville, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, and Sullivan Stapleton.
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Directed by | David Michôd |
Produced by | Liz Watts |
Written by | David Michôd |
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Music by | Antony Partos |
Cinematography | Adam Arkapaw |
Edited by | Luke Doolan |
Production company | Screen Australia Porchlight Films Film Victoria Screen NSW Fulcrum Media Finance Showtime Australia Blue-Tongue Films |
Distributed by | Madman Entertainment |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Budget | $5 million |
Box office | $6.8 million |
Michôd's script was inspired by events which involved the Pettingill criminal family of Melbourne, Australia. In 1991, two brothers Trevor Pettingill and Victor Peirce (along with two other men: Anthony Leigh Farrell and Peter David McEvoy) were acquitted in the 1988 shooting murder of two Victorian police officers.
Animal Kingdom was critically acclaimed. It received 36 awards and 39 nominations, and Jacki Weaver received multiple awards for her performance, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Screenplay
After his mother overdoses, 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody (James Frecheville) asks his estranged grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody (Jacki Weaver), for help, and she invites him to move in with her. Smurf is the affectionate matriarch of a Melbourne crime family that uses her home as a base. Her home is also being watched by cops who are looking for the oldest son, Andrew "Pope" Cody (Ben Mendelsohn), who is in hiding. The volatile middle brother, Craig (Sullivan Stapleton), deals drugs successfully enough to have bought the house for his mother. The youngest brother, Darren (Luke Ford), follows the lead of his siblings, while family friend "Baz" (Joel Edgerton) leads the gang, which specializes in armed robbery.
Craig takes J along to meet with a crooked cop from the drug squad, who tells Craig that renegade cops on the armed robbery squad are on the look out for all of them. Later, Baz goes to meet Pope at a shopping centre, where they discuss quitting crime and going straight. As Baz gets in his car to leave, police approach and shoot him dead. Angry and distraught, Pope and Craig want revenge, and ask J to steal a Commodore and bring it to Darren's place. The car is then planted in the middle of a night-time street as a lure. Two policemen are soon drawn to the scene, where they are ambushed and shot dead by Pope and Craig. The next day, Pope, Darren and J are taken in for questioning, where J meets Detective Senior Sergeant Nathan Leckie (Guy Pearce), who also leads the armed robbery squad. Leckie, one of the few non-corrupt police officers, recognizes J's predicament and begins to lean on him. The three are later released from custody, but J returns with his girlfriend Nicky to her parents' home.
Craig, who has avoided being picked up by the police, Pope, Darren and Smurf meet at a diner, where they recognize J as the weak link. When told by Smurf to give himself up for questioning, Craig panics and meets a friend in rural Bendigo. Craig learns that the house is already being monitored, and as the police arrive he tries to flee through a field but is gunned down. Pope and Darren take J to meet their solicitor Ezra. Ezra coaches J to not tell the police anything and pressures him to break up with Nicky, which J does. Leckie takes J into custody again, where he proposes that J be moved to witness protection, but J turns down the offer. Meanwhile, Nicky, unsure what to do, shows up at Smurf's home, where Pope gives her heroin, questions her, then smothers her to death to keep her silent.
When J returns to Smurf's house the next morning he discovers Nicky's bracelet outside the house. He calls Nicky's phone, and realising something is not right, flees to Nicky's parents' house. Pope gets Nicky's address from Darren and arrives in time to intercept J. J flees on foot and is taken into a safe house. With Craig and Baz dead, Pope and Darren imprisoned, and J potentially the star witness for the prosecution, Smurf decides, "J needs to go". Smurf uses her connections to procure J's address and persuades the corrupt cop to help her. Police from the drug squad then raid the safe house. J jumps a fence and returns to Smurf's house, saying he wishes to help free Pope and Darren from jail. To do this, the family's barrister then coaches J's answers.
After his day in court, Leckie sees J before his departure from the safe hotel and asks him if he has found his place in the world (a reference to Leckie's animal kingdom metaphor for J's predicament). Pope, Darren and Smurf celebrate with champagne while being interviewed after their controversial acquittal. Smurf later sees Leckie in the supermarket and taunts him. Later again, J returns to Smurf's home asking to stay, before going to his room. Pope enters and begins to talk to him but is cut off when J shoots him in the head. In the final scene, J returns to the living room and embraces a now silenced Smurf.
- Ben Mendelsohn as Andrew 'Pope' Cody, the psychopathic oldest of the brothers and a robber on the run from the police. His best friend and partner-in-crime is Barry 'Baz' Brown.
- Guy Pearce as Nathan Leckie, one of the few good police officers in Melbourne. He tries to convince J not to become a criminal.
- Jacki Weaver as Janine 'Smurf' Cody, the leader of the family; the mother of Pope, Darren and Craig's; and the grandmother of J's.
- Joel Edgerton as Barry 'Baz' Brown, Pope's best friend/partner-in-crime. He and his wife Cathy are close friends of the Cody family's.
- Sullivan Stapleton as Craig Cody, the middle brother, a successful drug dealer. He and Darren try to protect J from Pope, who hates him.
- Luke Ford as Darren Cody, the youngest of the brothers. He is only a few years older than J, and the two were best friends as children. He is the first of the brothers to warm up to J.
- James Frecheville as Joshua 'J' Daniel Cody, Smurf's grandson and the nephew of Pope, Craig and Darren's. He becomes friends with Craig and Darren, but hates Pope.
- Laura Wheelwright as Nicole "Nicky" Henry, J's girlfriend.
- Dan Wyllie as Ezra White, the family's solicitor who hates Leckie. The character Ezra White (also played by Wyllie) originally appeared as the central character in Michod's 2006 short drama film Ezra White, LL.B.
- Anthony Hayes as Det. Justin Norris, Leckie's partner who helps J with his situation.
- Mirrah Foulkes as Catherine 'Cathy' Brown, Baz's wife.
- Justin Rosniak as Det. Randall Roache
- Susan Prior as Alicia Henry
- Clayton Jacobson as Gus Emery
- Anna Lise Phillips as Justine Hopper
The film is loosely inspired by the real life Pettingill family and by the Walsh Street police shootings that occurred in Melbourne in 1988. Director David Michôd was interested in the underworld in Melbourne and wrote a script titled J in December 2000. Working at Screen NSW Script Development, fellow producer Liz Watts saw potential in the script. Watts said, "It needed more characterization and structure, which he kind of agreed with. It was important to me that he recognize that there was still work to be done on it." Michôd then did a number of draft scripts gaining feedback from many different people in the film industry. Liz Watts then became a producer on the film with a budget of A$5 million from Screen Australia, Film Victoria, Screen NSW and Showtime Australia. The final version of Animal Kingdom did not contain any of the dialogue featured in Michôd's script for J.
Animal Kingdom was filmed in the Melbourne metropolitan area. The outside funeral scene was filmed in Ivanhoe East, Victoria.
The film's original score was composed by Antony Partos with additional music composed by Sam Petty and David McCormack. It was released on 16 August 2010.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Animal Kingdom" | 2:36 |
2. | "This Is Where I Was" (composed by Sam Petty) | 1:43 |
3. | "Barry Brown" | 2:07 |
4. | "Prahran" | 2:38 |
5. | "Ivanhoe" | 4:09 |
6. | "Hawthorn" (composed by Sam Petty) | 3:48 |
7. | "Black Pools" | 1:34 |
8. | "Fairfield" | 2:03 |
9. | "Craig Cody" | 3:00 |
10. | "Janine's Little Boy" | 2:46 |
11. | "Nicky Henry" | 2:33 |
12. | "Descent" (composed by Antony Partos and David McCormack) | 5:11 |
13. | "Then and Now" | 2:31 |
14. | "Janine Cody" | 3:52 |
15. | "Melbourne" (composed by Antony Partos and Sam Petty) | 3:11 |
16. | "Joshua Cody" | 4:03 |
17. | "End" (composed by Jona Ma) | 2:21 |
Total length: | 50:07 |
Animal Kingdom premiered at the 26th Sundance Film Festival on 22 January 2010. It later opened in Australia on 3 June 2010.
Internationally, the film has been sold to the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Canada and Eastern Europe. It was released in August 2010 in the United States and Latin America by Sony Pic
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