Synopsis

A high quality powerful psychological crime drama, ANIMAL KINGDOM is a story about the battle between Melbourne's underworld and the police.

The film tracks seventeen-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, a troubled kid perilously caught between his own criminal family and Detective Leckie, a compromised cop who thinks that he can save him. J comes to realise that in order to survive he must write his own rule book, he must determine how the game is played, he must somehow choose his place in the cunning and brutal animal kingdom.