Animals
Some friendships are wild at heart
2019 | 109m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Sophie Hyde |
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| Writer: | Emma Jane Unsworth |
| Staring: |
| Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 02, 2019 |
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| Director: | Sophie Hyde |
| Writer: | Emma Jane Unsworth |
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
| Keywords | based on novel or book, dublin, ireland, female friendship, woman director |
| Production Companies | Closer Productions, Vico Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Holliday Grainger | Laura |
| Alia Shawkat | Tyler |
| Fra Fee | Jim |
| Dermot Murphy | Marty |
| Amy Molloy | Jean |
| Pat Shortt | Bill |
| Olwen Fouéré | Maureen |
| Kwaku Fortune | Julian |
| Elva Trill | Kirsten |
| Anthony Morris | Chicken Sandwich |
| Jamael Westman | Leo |
| Muiris Crowley | The Avant Gardener |
| Tara Egan Langley | Wedding Dress Shop Assistant |
| Ryan Lincoln | Bar Man |
| Charlie Maher | Jake |
| Zeff Lawless | Bursary Benefactor at Awards Party |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Sophie Hyde | Director |
| Emma Jane Unsworth | Screenplay, Novel |
| Bryan Mason | Music Editor, Editor, Director of Photography |
| Louise Mathews | Production Design |
| Saileóg O'Halloran | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Jed Palmer | Original Music Composer |
| Kate Dean | Music Supervisor |
| John Wallace | Line Producer |
| Julien Benoiton | First Assistant Director |
| Patricia Dennehy | Second Assistant Director |
| Anna Harrison | Second Assistant Director |
| Shaheen Baig | Casting |
| Renate Henschke | Costume Design |
| Zoë Barry | Original Music Composer |
| Stephen Fuller | Third Assistant Director |
| Christine Dilworth | Script Supervisor |
| Matthew Cormack | Script Editor |
| Angeli Macfarlane | Script Editor |
| JJ Sullivan | Focus Puller |
| Gosia Zur | Clapper Loader |
| Roman Bugovskiy | Steadicam Operator |
| J.B. Williams | Sound Recordist |
| Dean Murray | Boom Operator |
| Simon Murphy | Boom Operator |
| Darragh Scott | Gaffer |
| David O'Mara | Location Manager |
| Deborah Davis | Property Buyer |
| Niamh Buckley | Costume Supervisor |
| Tracy Phillpot | Makeup Designer, Hair Designer |
| Chloe Bourke | Makeup Artist |
| Ida Eriksson | Hairstylist |
| Bernard Walsh | Still Photographer |
| Elene Pepper | Post Production Producer |
| Emma Bortignon | Sound Designer |
| Adrian Medhurst | Foley Artist, Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Simon Walbrook | Sound Editor |
| Duncan Campbell | Foley Editor |
| Pete Smith | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Tom Harberd | Associate Producer |
| Sarah Brocklehurst | Producer |
| Cormac Fox | Producer |
| Fenella Ross | Associate Producer |
| Elliot Ross | Associate Producer |
| Johanna Karppinen | Associate Producer |
| Rebecca Summerton | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 5 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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‘Animals’ would have been better served had it had the guts to go as dark as the source material, instead of teetering on the edge. Gritty but not too gritty, the film fails to decide which relationship is its focus, yet it still manages to engage you enough not to truely care while voyeuristically ... observing this modern right of passage of identity, resilience and the hard choices we have to make. - Jess Fenton Read Jess' full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-animals-hedonistic-female-friendship-and-the-art-of-growing-up Head to https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/sff for more Sydney Film Festival reviews.
This starts off quite strongly with the dynamic between "Laura" (Holliday Grainger) and "Tyler" (Alia Shawkat) tight and nippy - if largely hedonistic and alcohol fuelled. Once a love interest develops between the pair though, and the latter's sister "Jean" (Amy Molloy) deliberately gets pregnant, t ... he body clocks start ticking and the pace of the film slows to that of a glacier as the sharpness of the first 20 minutes or so takes to it's heels. What that leaves us with is a sort of dull observational documentary on some thoughtless and selfish Dublin pseudo-intellectuals and by the conclusion I just didn't care.