Optimum Releasing have just sent us the brand new UK trailer and poster for their new movie, Animal Kingdom which is set for release 25th February in the UK. It’s directed by David Michôd and stars Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Luke Ford, Dan Wyllie and Jacki Weaver. This movie is high on the list of ones to watch after it won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Synosis: Following the death of his mother, seventeen year–old Joshua ‘J’ Cody (James Frecheville) moves in with his hitherto–estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Janine ‘Smurf’ Cody (Jacki Weaver), and her three criminal sons – the Cody boys. Eldest son and armed robber, Andrew ‘Pope’ Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding from a gang of renegade detectives. Middle brother Craig (Sullivan Stapleton) is a successful but volatile drug dealer, whilst the youngest Cody, Darren (Luke Ford), naïvely follows his elder brothers’ lead. Just as ‘Pope’s’ business partner and best friend, Barry Brown (Joel Edgerton), decides that he wants out of the game, recognising that their days of old–school banditry are all but over, tensions between the family and the police explode. ‘J’ finds himself at the centre of a cold–blooded revenge plot that turns his family upside down and which throws him directly into the path of senior homicide detective, Nathan Leckie (Guy Pearce).
Check out the trailer and poster below. You can click the poster to enlarge. Who’s looking forward to this one then?
