Animal Kingdom (2010)
Crime, Drama.
Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. The Wild West played out on the city’s streets.
Armed robber Pope Cody (Mendelsohn) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry ‘Baz’ Brown (Edgerton) wants out of the game, recognizing that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope’s younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody (Stapleton), is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade – the true cash cow of the modern criminal fraternity – while the youngest Cody brother, Darren (Ford), naively navigates his way through this criminal world – the only world his family has ever known.
And into this world arrives their nephew, Joshua ‘J’ Cody (Frecheville). Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf (Weaver), mother to the Cody boys.
J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon discovers, this world is far larger and more menacing than he could ever imagine. When tensions between family and police reach a bloody peak, J finds himself at the center of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns the family upside down, and which also threatens to ensnare innocent bystanders such as his girlfriend, Nicky (Wheelwright).
Director: David Michôd
Writer: David Michôd
Stars: James Frecheville, Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton, David Michôd, Jacki Weaver, Ben Mendelsohn, Sullivan Stapleton, Luke Ford
►Cast:
| James Frecheville | ► | Joshua ‘J’ Cody |
| Bryce Lindemann | ► | Paramedic #1 |
| Paul Smits | ► | Paramedic #2 |
| Jacki Weaver | ► | Janine ‘Smurf’ Cody |
| Joel Edgerton | ► | Barry ‘Baz’ Brown |
| Luke Ford | ► | Darren Cody |
| Sullivan Stapleton | ► | Craig Cody |
| Mirrah Foulkes | ► | Catherine Brown |
| Anthony Ahern | ► | Armed Robbery Detective |
| Justin Rosniak | ► | Detective Randall Roache |
| Michael Vice | ► | Hood #1 |
| Chris Weir | ► | Hood #2 |
| Laura Wheelwright | ► | Nicky Henry |
| Sarah Nguyen | ► | Waitress |
| Lucia Cai | ► | Cashier |
| Ben Mendelsohn | ► | Andrew ‘Pope’ Cody |
| Ann Michôd | ► | Shopper |
| Susan Prior | ► | Alicia Henry |
| Clayton Jacobson | ► | Gus Emery |
| Tim Phillipps | ► | Const. Daniel Hordern |
| Josh Helman | ► | Const. Peter Simmons |
| Michael Cody | ► | Police Radio (voice) |
| Kieran Darcy-Smith | ► | John Harrop |
| Guy Pearce | ► | Detective Senior Sgt Nathan Leckie |
| Anthony Hayes | ► | Detective Justin Norris |
| Jack Heanly | ► | Andy Emery |
| Dan Wyllie | ► | Ezra White |
| Andy McPhee | ► | Richard Collis |
| Christina Azucena | ► | Dacinta Collis |
| Jacqueline Brennan | ► | Sarah Leckie (as Jacquie Brennan) |
| Ben Ouwehand | ► | Scott Leckie |
| Bert LaBonté | ► | PSG Santo (as Bert Labonte) |
| James Saunders | ► | PSG Gary |
| Dom Phelan | ► | PSG Tom |
| Brenda Palmer | ► | Smurf’s Neighbour |
| Anna Lise Phillips | ► | Barrister Justine Hopper |
| Tom Noble | ► | Court Warden |
| Daniel Roche | ► | SOG |
| David Michôd | ► | Reporter |
| Adam Arkapaw | ► | Cameraman |
| Brendan Bacon | ► | Pasty Guy |
| Andrew Day | ► | Service Station Police Officer |
| Luke Doolan | ► | Drug Squad Officer |
| Cameron Ewart | ► | Extra |
| Stephen Hannah | ► | Detective |
| George Iskander | ► | Shopper |
| Paul Rochford | ► | SOG #2 |
| Mat Stevenson | ► | PSG Doors |