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  • 2000
  • R
  • Silver Nitrate
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2000
  • R
  • Silver Nitrate
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Based on the eponymous novel by one-time San Quentin inmate Edward Bunker, Animal Factory portrays the manufacture of a hardened criminal out of the middle-class clay of a newly imprisoned and once promising young man. (Silver Nitrate Releasing)

Directed By: Steve Buscemi

Written By: Edward Bunker, John Steppling

  • 2000
  • R
  • Silver Nitrate
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2000
  • R
  • Silver Nitrate
  • 1 h 34 m

Animal Factory

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
65
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.9
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Summary Based on the eponymous novel by one-time San Quentin inmate Edward Bunker, Animal Factory portrays the manufacture of a hardened criminal out of the middle-class clay of a newly imprisoned and once promising young man. (Silver Nitrate Releasing)

Directed By: Steve Buscemi

Written By: Edward Bunker, John Steppling

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
65
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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One of the least sensationalistic--and therefore, more unsettlingly plausible--visions of prison life ever transfigured into big-screen drama.
By Gene Seymour FULL REVIEW
75
A genre-busting film that deserves to be seen.
By Kevin Maynard FULL REVIEW
75
A wonderfully acted, strangely low-key prison movie.
By Jonathan Foreman FULL REVIEW
70
It's a guy's film that doesn't just revel in testosterone, though -- it has a more purposeful agenda.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
70
Willem Dafoe steals the picture with his comic timing.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
60
What enrich the film are its layers of detail -- moronic racial protocols, turf wars, pecking orders, men as livestock -- the authenticity of the dialogue and the rich range of characters.
By John Patterson FULL REVIEW
50
You come away with the sense that you should have come to care (or at least to know) more about its central characters than you do.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.9
55% Positive
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45% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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55% Positive
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45% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Production Company Animal Productions LLC, Arts Production Corporation, Franchise Pictures, Industry Entertainment, Phoenician Entertainment
Release Date Oct 13, 2000
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
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Tagline "Before Prison Break there was Animal Factory"
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Awards

Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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