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 Explore What Critics Are Saying About We The Animals:
"We The Animals is this year's Moonlight...
​Critic's Pick. Utterly Timeless"

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“Clearly inspired by Benh Zeitlin‘s masterpiece Beasts of the Southern Wild, Zagar and Zak Mulligan infuse magical surrealism to the film’s frames”​
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​"This movie is gorgeous.
The performances are extraordinarily moving."

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"On one level... We the Animals is a
classic coming-of age tale;
on another, it's a near perfect depiction of the emotional damage that can result
from economic insecurity."

The New York Times Picture
"Mesmerizing and dream-like,
captures the feel of the novel with
uncanny precision"

The Hollywood Reproter Picture
"Jeremiah Zagar's dreamy Sundance hit
channels Terrence Malick."


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"An impressionistic swirl of a film
about masculinity, about abuse, about growing up queer, about chaotic family life, about the jumble of incidents and stirrings through which a child discovers a self."

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"a gauzily affecting portrait of childhood that is at
once dreamlike and nightmarish...Recommended."
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Considered The #1 Peer-Reviewed Voice In The Educational World

Directed by
Jeremiah Zagar


Runtime: 94 min
Rating: R

Public Performance Rights Licensing:
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Genre: Drama

Areas of Study: LGBTQ, Family Psychology, Childhood Development, Child Abuse, Poverty

Synopsis:

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Us three. Us brothers. Us kings, inseparable.

Three boys tear through their rural New York hometown, in the midst of their young parents’ volatile love that makes and unmakes the family many times over. While Manny and Joel grow into versions of their loving and unpredictable father, Ma seeks to keep her youngest, Jonah, in the cocoon of home. More sensitive and conscious than his older siblings, Jonah increasingly embraces an imagined world all his own.
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With a screenplay by Dan Kitrosser and Jeremiah Zagar based on the celebrated Justin Torres novel, We the Animals is a visceral coming-of-age story propelled by layered performances from its astounding cast – including three talented, young first-time actors - and stunning animated sequences which bring Jonah’s torn inner world to life. Drawing from his documentary background, director Jeremiah Zagar creates an immersive portrait of working class family life and brotherhood.
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