Animal Kingdom (2010) on Netflix
After his mother's overdose, seventeen-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his grandmother Janine "Smurf" Cody. She leads a Melbourne crime family of armed robbers and drug dealers.
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- Rotten Tomatoes95%
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Plot summary
Julia Cody has kept her son Joshua "J" Cody away from her Melbourne relatives for years. When she dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old J contacts his grandmother Janine "Smurf" Cody, the affectionate matriarch whose house is the base for a criminal family. Her sons include the volatile Craig, who deals drugs, the young Darren, and the eldest, Andrew "Pope" Cody, who is in hiding while the armed robbery squad looks for him. Family friend Barry "Baz" Brown leads their armed robberies. Craig takes J along to meet a corrupt officer from the drug squad, who warns that renegade police are hunting the family. Detective Nathan Leckie, who is investigating the Codys, sees a chance to pull the boy out.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Animal Kingdom (2010)
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- Animal Kingdom received 18 nominations for the 2010 Australian Film Institute Awards, across all major feature film categories, which was a record achievement. On 11 December 2010 it went on to win a record 10 of them.
- The screenplay was inspired by several crimes allegedly committed by one Melbourne family, particularly a case in which four men were acquitted in 1988 of murdering two police officers in the Walsh Street police shootings.
- Quentin Tarantino listed Animal Kingdom as his third favorite film of 2010, placing it behind only Toy Story 3 and The Social Network.
- Jacki Weaver was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 68th Golden Globe Awards, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 83rd Academy Awards.
- The American cable network TNT developed an eponymous TV series inspired by the film, with John Wells as a producer and a cast led by Ellen Barkin, Scott Speedman, Shawn Hatosy, Ben Robson and Finn Cole.
- 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 that script.
