Animal Factory (Blu-ray)
On the inside the rules are brutal and the stakes are high.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 28, 2017
- Originally Released: 2017
- Label: Arrow Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Willem Dafoe & Edward Furlong | |
| Performer: | Danny Trejo, Seymour Cassel, Mickey Rourke, Steve Buscemi, Tom Arnold, John Heard, Mark Boone Junior, Eddie Bunker, Chris Bauer, Afemo Omilami, J.C. Quinn, Michael Buscemi, Larry Fessenden, Vincent Laresca, Ernest Harden, Jr. & Rockets Redglare | |
| Directed by | Steve Buscemi | |
| Edited by | Kate Williams | |
| Screenplay by | Eddie Bunker & John Steppling | |
| Original story by | Eddie Bunker | |
| Composition by | John Lurie | |
| Produced by | Julie Yorn, Elie Samaha, Steve Buscemi & Andrew Stevens | |
| Director of Photography: | Phil Parmet |
Entertainment Reviews:
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58%
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.
Salon.com
there are two reasons to fast-forward this offering when it's released on video: (1) Mickey Rourke's over-the-top bejeweled drag queen and (2) Tom Arnold's truly rotten performance as a baddy who has the hots for boy-buns. Roseanne's finally gotten her re
Detour Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
What it does lack is a performance by Furlong that's the equal of Dafoe's.
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RTÉ (Ireland)
Rating: A --
"Animal Factory" shows in unflinching scenes of stabbings, race riots, drug use, attempted rape, and constantly boiling chaotic violence, how hardened criminals are formed by incessant molding inside American penitentiaries.
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ColeSmithey.com
It's the relationship between Willem Dafoe, as Earl, the hard-time veteran, and Edward Furlong, as Ron, the new boy he takes under his wing, that makes the film so compelling.
Village Voice
Rating: B --
We may have seen this type of Animal before, but Furlong and Dafoe's work -- and Buscemi's honest, caring touch with these fringe-dwellers -- make it seem fresh.
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Entertainment Today
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A picture about adapting one's instincts, and Mr. Buscemi's deftness works well in this context.
New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
Troubled youth Ron Decker (Edward Furlong, American History X) is sentenced to a ten-year stint in the notorious San Quentin State Prison for a drug-dealing conviction. Inexperienced in the ways of prison life, he's taken under the wing of Earl Copen (Willem Dafoe, To Live and Die in LA), an experienced con with the entire prison in the palm of his hand - inmates and guards alike...
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