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''Animal Kingdom'' is a 2010 Australian crime drama film written and directed by David Michôd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, James Frecheville, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, and Sullivan Stapleton. David Michôd's script was inspired by the Pettingill family of Melbourne, Australia, who in 1991 saw the acquittal of brothers Victor Pierce and Trevor Pettingill (along with 2 others, Anthony Leigh Farrell and Peter David McEvoy) in the 1988 murder of two Victoria police officers. The film was critically acclaimed–it received 36 awards and 39 nominations with Weaver receiving multiple awards for her performance, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Animal Kingdom (2010) )〕 ==Plot== After his mother dies from a heroin overdose, 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody (James Frecheville) asks his estranged grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody (Jacki Weaver), for advice about what he should do. She invites him to move in with her, and he accepts. Smurf is the affectionate matriarch of a Melbourne crime family that uses her home as a base. Family friend "Baz" (Joel Edgerton) leads the group, which specializes in armed robbery. The volatile middle brother, Craig (Sullivan Stapleton), also deals drugs successfully enough to have bought the house for his mother. The youngest brother, Darren (Luke Ford), follows the lead of the others. Her home is being watched by cops who are looking for the oldest son, Andrew "Pope" Cody (Ben Mendelsohn), who is in hiding. Baz teases the cops on stake out. Craig takes J along to meet with a crooked cop from the drug squad, who tells him to avoid trouble because renegade cops on the armed robbery squad are on the look out for all of them. Later, Baz goes to meet Pope inside a shopping centre. They discuss quitting the robbery game and settling down. As Baz gets in his car to leave, police approach. After telling them that Pope has left, the police shoot Baz dead without provocation. Frightened, J and his girlfriend Nicky ask her parents if he can stay with them. Pope and Craig want revenge, and ask J to steal a car and bring it to Darren's place. J complies, although they keep him in the dark. The car is planted in the middle of a street. Two policemen are drawn to the scene, where they are ambushed and killed by Pope, Craig and Darren. The next day, Pope, Darren and J are taken in for questioning, where J meets Detective Senior Sergeant Nathan Leckie (Guy Pearce) who also leads the armed robbery squad. Leckie, one of the few non-corrupt police officers, recognizes J's predicament and begins to lean on him. The three are later released from custody, but J returns to Nicky's parents' home. Craig has avoided being picked up by the police. Pope, Darren and Smurf meet him at a diner. The four recognize that J is the weak link, that they do not know what he told the police, and that he isn't around to ask. Craig panics, and calls a friend in the country to buy a gun. A day later he finds that his friend's house is already being monitored. As the police arrive Craig runs through a field, and they gun him down. Pope and Darren take J to meet their solicitor Ezra. They coach him to not tell the police anything and pressure him to break up with his girlfriend, since she may come under pressure too. J breaks up with Nicky. Leckie takes J into custody again, where he proposes that J be moved to witness protection. J turns down the offer. Meanwhile, Nicky, unsure what to do, shows up at Smurf's home. Only Pope and Darren are there. Pope invites her in, gives her heroin, questions her, then smothers her to death to keep her silent, to Darren's horror. When J returns to Smurf's house the next morning after spending the night with Leckie, he discovers Nicky's bracelet outside the house. He calls Nicky's phone, and hears it ringing in a car boot nearby. As he realizes that something is not right, Pope (who has also heard Nicky's phone ring) charges from the house. J flees the scene, running to Nicky's parents house to escape Pope. Pope gets Nicky's address from Darren and arrives in time to smash into Nicky's father's car pulling out of the drive. J flees on foot. J calls on Detective Leckie and is taken into witness protection in a safe house with private security. Pope and Darren are arrested and jailed. With Craig and Baz dead, Pope and Darren imprisoned, and J potentially being the star witness for the prosecution, Smurf decides, "J needs ''to go''". Smurf uses her connections to procure J's address, and suggests to the corrupt cop that Craig knew that J will implicate him as well. Police from the drug squad then raid the safe house. J jumps a fence and returns to Smurf's house, saying, "I can't live like this," and that he wishes to help free Pope and Darren from jail. To do this, Ezra, the family's barrister sets up J's answers to form a hole in the prosecution's case. It is uncertain whether J will testify to assist the police or his uncles. As he is driven in a police van back from court, a cop in the van points an unloaded gun at J's head and pulls the trigger. Leckie sees J before his departure from the safe hotel, and asks him if he has found his place in the world (a reference to an earlier speech by Leckie to J where he uses the weak and the strong creatures in the animal kingdom as a metaphor for J's predicament - the film derives its title from this speech). Pope, Darren and Smurf are asked to celebrate with champagne while being interviewed for television after their controversial acquittal. Smurf sees Leckie in the supermarket and taunts him. Later, J returns to Smurf's home asking to stay. After Smurf lets him in, J goes to greet Pope and Darren before going to his room. Pope enters and begins to talk to him, but is cut off when J shoots him in the head. In the final shot of the film, J returns to the living room and embraces Smurf - she does not respond. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Animal Kingdom (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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