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Animals

"Some friendships are wild at heart"

Longtime friends and party lovers Laura and Tyler navigate life and love in Dublin, Ireland but find themselves drifting apart when Laura becomes engaged.

Top Cast

  • Holliday Grainger

    Holliday Grainger

    Laura

  • Alia Shawkat

    Alia Shawkat

    Tyler

  • Fra Fee

    Fra Fee

    Jim

  • Dermot Murphy

    Dermot Murphy

    Marty

  • Amy Molloy

    Amy Molloy

    Jean

  • Pat Shortt

    Pat Shortt

    Bill

  • Olwen Fouéré

    Olwen Fouéré

    Maureen

  • Kwaku Fortune

    Kwaku Fortune

    Julian

  • Elva Trill

    Elva Trill

    Kirsten

Overview

Longtime friends and party lovers Laura and Tyler navigate life and love in Dublin, Ireland but find themselves drifting apart when Laura becomes engaged.

Rating

5.5 / 10
55 Reviews
1 Popular

2 Reviews

  • SWITCH.
    SWITCH.
    8 Jun 7, 2019

    ‘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.

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    5 May 29, 2024

    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, the 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.

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