Animal Kingdom (film)

Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime drama film written and directed by David Michd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, James Frecheville, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, and Sullivan Stapleton. David Michds script was inspired by the Pettingill family of Melbourne, Australia, who in 1991 saw the acquittal of brothers Victor Pierce and Trevor Pettingill along withothers, Anthony Leigh Farrell and Peter David McEvoy in the 1988 murder of two Victoria police officers. The film was critically acclaimedit receivedawards andnominations with Weaver receiving multiple awards for her performance, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Smurf is the affectionate matriarch of a Melbourne crime family that uses her home as a base. Family friend Baz Joel Edgerton leads the group, which specializes in armed robbery. The volatile middle brother, Craig Sullivan Stapleton, also deals drugs successfully enough to have bought the house for his mother. The youngest brother, Darren Luke Ford, follows the lead of the others. Her home is being watched by cops who are looking for the oldest son, Andrew Pope Cody Ben Mendelsohn, who is in hiding. Baz teases the cops on stake out.Craig takes J along to meet with a crooked cop from the drug squad, who tells him to avoid trouble because renegade cops on the armed robbery squad are on the look out for all of them. ........

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