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We the Animals (2018)

R Aug 17, 2018 Drama 1h 33m
65%
User Score
6.9/10
92%
81/100

Us three, us brothers, us kings.

Overview

Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.

Jeremiah Zagar
Director
Daniel Kitrosser
Writer

Top Billed Cast

Evan Rosado
Evan Rosado

Jonah
Raúl Castillo
Raúl Castillo

Paps
Sheila Vand
Sheila Vand

Ma
Josiah Santiago
Josiah Santiago

Joel
Isaiah Kristian
Isaiah Kristian

Manny
Giovanni Pacciarelli
Giovanni Pacciarelli

Dustin
Moe Isaac
Moe Isaac

Dustin’s Grandpa
Amelia Campbell
Amelia Campbell

Woman in Van
Mickey Anthony
Mickey Anthony

Clerk

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Official US Trailer
Official US Trailer
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Reviews

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A review by Stephen Campbell
Written on September 16, 2019

**_A poignant and poetic evocation of childhood_**

> _We were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful - little animals, clawing at what we needed._

- Justin Torres; _We the Animals_ (2011)

A remarkably contained and intimate story featuring only five main cast members and around ten locations, _We the Animals_ is about a young boy awakening to the fact that he's homosexual. Equal parts disassociated lyricism and warts-and-all grittiness, in attempting to untangle the struggles concomitant with his burgeoning queerness, the film looks at issues such as the ever-increasing distance between himself and two brothers with whom he was once so close, the dawning realisation that although his parents love each other, so too are they destroying one another, and the fact that th...

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