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Animal Kingdom

Dir. David Michôd · · 113 min · 6/3/2010

Animal Kingdom

Jacki Weaver earned an Oscar nomination as Janine “Smurf” Cody, the smiling, steely matriarch of a Melbourne crime family whose maternal warmth masks ruthless control. An older woman as the unsettling power centre of the story — fully drawn, never a prop.

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