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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767860734
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 076786073X
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: January 09, 2001
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 26638
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Steve Buscemi subtly refines the prison drama in his second film, a rich character piece set in a ramshackle state penitentiary. Edward Furlong is a glum, drug-dealing, middle-class bad boy suddenly drop-kicked into a world in which his sneering defiance just makes him more attractive prey to hardened convicts. Willem Dafoe, a career felon who runs the prison's contraband network, takes the kid under his wing and his protection. He's obviously attracted to the pretty boy and that sexual tension buzzes throughout the film, but their friendship, which is much more complicated, becomes the center of the film.
Buscemi allows the story to trickle along, downplaying the usual prison clichés to delve into the often murky relationships between prisoners, the predatory pecking order, and the undercurrent of racial divisions. He suggests everything in glances, threats, and tensions that only rarely erupt into violence. The film lacks a strong narrative line, but Buscemi's sensitivity to his characters and his sharp ensemble direction provide generous compensation. Dafoe is brilliant as the smiling smooth operator, his shaved head and jagged-toothed grin suggesting both a threatening confidence, and Furlong ably registers the fear of his sheer defenselessness in this dangerous world. Tom Arnold shines as a terrifying bully and Mickey Rourke is almost unrecognizable as Furlong's cross-dressing cellmate with a honeyed Southern lilt and makeup that would make Tammy Faye Bakker proud. --Sean Axmaker
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***1/2 2000. Based on Edward Bunker's Animal Factory: A Novel and directed by Steve Buscemi. Ron Decker is 21 years old and has just been condemned to a 5 years prison term for having dealt drugs. He is noticed by an older convict, Earl Copen, who decides to protect him. Good prison movie with excellent actors: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong and an hardly recognizable Mickey Rourke as Jan the transvestite. The most interesting theme of the film is the strange friendship growing between Dafoe and Furlong, ... Read More
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This is not a "story" film. It is more of a commentary on the age old question of "does the criminal make the system or does the system make the criminal." It opens up the discussion and questioning of our entire penal system. Would Edward Furlong's character have become a hardened hate filled individual had he been left peddling his dime bags of weed? Was he more dangerous before or after? What would Defoe have been like had he been rehabilitated rather than incarcerated? Again, I tell you, this is not ... Read More
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This is an excellent movie based on the Edward Bunker book of the same name. The plot revolves around a young man committed to prison who is taken under the wing of an older convict. The film portrays prison life in all its banality and violence as well as the values and psychology of the prisoners and the relationships, both good and evil, that form among them.
Every actor, including Edward Bunker himself, did a fine job with Steve Buscemi as both actor and director. However, the revelation here is ... Read More
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Animal Factory (Steve Buscemi, 2000)
Steve Buscemi is best known as an actor, thanks in no small part to him being a staple in Quentin Tarantino films, but you know the old line-- everyone in Hollywood wants to direct. Buscemi has actually done his share of it, but the movies that result tend to be minor affairs that get little distribution outside the arthouse scene. That's kind of depressing, especially when it comes to a movie like Animal Factory, with a wealth of acting talent and a script ... Read More
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OK film if your cable or dish is off line.
Why did Tom Arnold get top billing? Wish he'd have stayed home during the production of this movie.
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