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We the Animals is a 2018 American coming-of-age drama film, directed by Jeremiah Zagar and written by Zagar and Dan Kitrosser, based on the novel of the same name by Justin Torres. The film marks Zagar's first narrative feature film. The film stars Evan Rosado, Raúl Castillo, Sheila Vand, Isaiah Kristian, and Josiah Gabriel.[2][3] It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival[4] and was released on August 17, 2018, by The Orchard.[5]

We the Animals
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jeremiah Zagar
Screenplay by	Jeremiah Zagar Dan Kitrosser
Based on	We the Animals by Justin Torres
Produced by	Jeremy Yaches Christina D. King Andrew Goldman Paul Mezey
Starring	Evan Rosado Raúl Castillo Sheila Vand Isaiah Kristian Josiah Gabriel
Cinematography	Zak Mulligan
Edited by	Keiko Deguchi Brian A. Kates
Music by	Nick Zammuto
Production companies	Cinereach Public Record
Distributed by	The Orchard
Release dates	January 20, 2018 (2018-01-20) (Sundance) August 17, 2018 (2018-08-17) (United States)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$400,961[1]

Premise

Jonah grows up with rambunctious brothers in a working class mixed-race family in upstate New York and must contend with both his volatile father and his emerging homosexuality.[6]

Production

The film was shot on grainy 16mm film and includes colored pencil animated sequences.[7] The cinematographer, Zak Mulligan, said "there was a lot of effort to create [a] feeling of intimacy" and noted that much of the film was shot at child's-eye-height. The actors who played the brothers and parents lived together during production so they would feel like a real family.[8] The director, Jeremiah Zagar, involved the novel's author Justin Torres throughout the process, saying Torres "was on the set, and he read every draft of the script...He was even in the editing room".[9] The film was dedicated to the memory of Tim Hetherington.

Cast

• Evan Rosado as Jonah
• Raúl Castillo as Paps
• Sheila Vand as Ma
• Isaiah Kristian as Manny
• Josiah Gabriel as Joel
• Giovanni Pacciarelli as Dustin
• Moe Isaac as Dustin's Grandpa
• Michael Pemberton as Foreman George
• Mickey Anthony as Clerk Kevin
• Amelia Campbell as Woman in Van
• Tom Malley as Old Man
• Terry Holland as Televangelist Voice

Reception

Critics compared the film to Moonlight and Tree of Life and variously called it impressionistic, intimate, woozy, and evocative.[7] On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 92% based on 100 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Dreamlike and haunting, We the Animals approaches the coming-of-age odyssey with a uniquely documentarian eye."[10] On Metacritic, which assigns a rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 83 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[11] The film won the Sundance NEXT Innovator Award[12] and was nominated for five 2019 Independent Spirit Awards.[13]

References

External links

• Official website
• We the Animals at IMDb
• We the Animals at Metacritic
• We the Animals at Rotten Tomatoes

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[de] We the Animals

We the Animals ist ein Filmdrama von Jeremiah Zagar, das am 20. Januar 2018 im Rahmen des Sundance Film Festivals seine Premiere feierte und am 17. August 2018 in die US-amerikanischen Kinos kam.

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- [en] We the Animals (film)

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