Animals 2019

Some friendships are wild at heart

5.7 / 10   39 vote(s)
Comedy Drama

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.

Homepage http://www.animalsfilm.co.uk
Release Date 2019-08-02
Runtime 1h 49m
Directors Bryan Mason, Julien Benoiton, Patricia Dennehy, Anna Harrison, Stephen Fuller, Sophie Hyde
Producers Cormac Fox, Sarah Brocklehurst, Rebecca Summerton, Tom Harberd, Fenella Ross, Elliot Ross, Johanna Karppinen, John Wallace, Elene Pepper
Writers Emma Jane Unsworth, Emma Jane Unsworth, Matthew Cormack, Angeli Macfarlane

‘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

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