The film starring David Dastmalchian, Kim Shaw, John Heard is directed by Collin Schiffli. Jude and Bobbie are a young couple undergo bad days: homelessness, no jobs, no aim, no money and addiction. Ultimately, they must face the reality of their circumstance when one of them gets dangerous problem.
8 May 1980, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
7 March 1945, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
13 January 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 July 1977, Kansas, USA
1 June 1966, Dundee, Scotland, UK
25 September 1980, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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February 22, 2016
It hits enough unexpected notes, both of damnation and redemption, that it stands above most of its contemporaries in the subgenre.
May 21, 2015
The couple's doomed romance feels familiar from numerous other films about addiction, and the movie is downright bad whenever it aspires to visual poetry.
May 15, 2015
This is not a "slippery slope" movie, like other stories about addicts. In "Animals," they are already at the bottom of the slope.
November 02, 2016
Director Collin Schiffli keeps a tight focus on character, as the couple's plight becomes increasingly dire.
May 14, 2015
It's gritty and grim, but "Animals" is also a gripping portrait of young junkies in love.
May 21, 2015
Has confidence and authenticity to spare.
May 15, 2015
This kind of movie can boost the fortunes of little-known actors, and it should do that for Dastmalchian and Shaw.
May 28, 2015
What separates Animals from its twitchier brethren is a keen sense of place.
December 24, 2015
Homeless con artists ply their trade in petty crime survival saga.
May 15, 2015
There's no shortage of indie pictures that burrow into the cold realities of drug dependency. But "Animals," like the best of these films, moves beyond mere cautionary tale.
May 22, 2015
"Animals" is a stark, brilliant, uncompromising, beautifully acted piece of work.
May 14, 2015
The trajectory of "Animals" is obvious in the opening minutes of this numbing if well-acted junkie drama.
