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Animal Factory (2000) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Oct 13, 2000
• UK: 2 Nov 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 9, 2001
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong language, violence and drug use.
Running Time
1 hour, 34 minutes
Country USA
Studio Arts Production Corporation, Franchise Pictures, Industry Entertainment, Phoenician Films
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• Animal Factory
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Genre: Drama, Prison, Gay/Lesbian, Psychodrama
Plot: For his second film as a director, actor Steve Buscemi (TREES LOUNGE) brings ex-convict Edward Bunker's poignant jail drama to the screen. Trapped with a long-term prison sentence in a Pennsylvania state penitentiary, 21-year-old Ron Decker (Edward Furlong) feels like a terrified fish-out-of-water. His cellmate, Jan the Actress (an impressively unrecognizable Mickey Rourke), is a cross-dresser who won't stop talking. Enter Earl Copen (Willem Dafoe), an aging convict who has been in prison so long that he runs the show. Earl takes Ron under his wing, and a strange and intense relationship develops between them. However, the relationship offers Ron the protection he needs and gives Earl the feeling that he is a father figure. After Ron's appeal is denied, ensuring his place in the penitentiary for five more years, Earl thinks up a dangerous plan of escape that will either set them free or cost them their lives in the process. Buscemi's drama successfully balances the brutality of prison life with the touching, intimate relationship between Ron and Earl, providing ANIMAL FACTORY with a sensitivity that most prison films rarely contain. The movie features an atmospheric score by actor-musician John Lurie.
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| Cast |
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 | Edward Furlong
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, American History X, Detroit Rock City |
 | Seymour Cassel
The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore |
 | Mickey Rourke
Man on Fire, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Pledge |
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 | John Heard
Home Alone, Big, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York |
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John Lurie
Get Shorty, Excess Baggage, Clay Pigeons |
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