Holliday Grainger

Alia Shawkat

Fra Fee

Dermot Murphy

Amy Molloy

Pat Shortt

Olwen Fouéré

Kwaku Fortune

Elva Trill

Anthony Morris

Jamael Westman

Muiris Crowley

Tara Egan Langley

Ryan Lincoln

Charlie Maher

Zeff Lawless

Tom Harberd

Fenella Ross

Elliot Ross

Johanna Karppinen

John Wallace

Julien Benoiton

Patricia Dennehy

Anna Harrison

Stephen Fuller

Christine Dilworth

Matthew Cormack

Angeli Macfarlane

JJ Sullivan

Gosia Zur

Roman Bugovskiy

J.B. Williams

Dean Murray

Simon Murphy

Darragh Scott

David O'Mara

Deborah Davis

Niamh Buckley

Saileóg O'Halloran

Tracy Phillpot

Chloe Bourke

Ida Eriksson

Bernard Walsh

Elene Pepper

Emma Bortignon

Adrian Medhurst

Simon Walbrook

Duncan Campbell

Pete Smith

Bryan Mason

Sophie Hyde

Shaheen Baig

Emma Jane Unsworth

Louise Mathews

Renate Henschke

Sarah Brocklehurst

Cormac Fox

Rebecca Summerton

Zoë Barry

Jed Palmer

Kate Dean

Emily Tebbitt

Comedy

Drama

Animals

Sarah Brocklehurst Productions

Closer Productions

Vico Films

Head Gear Films

Metrol Technology

Kreo Films

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Australia

Ireland

United Kingdom

SWITCH.

‘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

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CinemaSerf

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.

English

Animals - Behind The Scenes

Animals Interview with Holliday Grainger and Sophie Hyde

Official UK Trailer