Animal Room Details

1995

In the near future, a student is caught using drugs. He is then put in a controversial rehabilitation program called the "Animal Room" where his life is threatened by the anarchistic youths already there. A violent and apocalyptic movie in the tradition of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, complete with some scenes of graphic violence. Read more

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Animal Room

In the near future, a student is caught using drugs. He is then put in a controversial rehabilitation program called the "Animal Room" where his life is threatened by the anarchistic youths already there. A violent and apocalyptic movie in the tradition of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, complete with some scenes of graphic violence.

Starring	Matthew Lillard, Catherine Hicks, Amanda Peet, Neil Patrick Harris, Huckleberry Fox
Director	Craig Singer
Studio	ILC PRIME
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 38 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 24 Feb 2003 Production year: 1995
Format	DVD

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  Rubbish

  Don't bother. Wot a total pile of pants!!!!!!

  • • A customer from Wales
    • Posted 24 Oct 2006 10:42

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  Not Bad - Not Great!

  Arnold Mosk (Neil Patrick Harris), a bright young intellectual, has been going through a tough time recently; his mother's a drunken mess and he's become hooked on drugs. This has had the unfortunate effect of resigning him to a special class filled with losers, dead-beats and generally disruptive pupils. It is here that his encounters with school bully Doug Van Housen (Matthew Lillard) begin to get increasingly more violent...
  
  Director/Writer, Craig Singer, has obviously thought long and hard about his subject matter, and there are flashes of intelligent writing throughout the movie. However, the film never really breaks free of the synopsis and merely goes around in circles; the lack of momentum is both frustrating and even, at times, boring. Similarly, whilst the acting is good, the characters feel misaligned - Gary Trancer (Gabriel Olds) seems far too saccharine and naive to become friends with Arnold, and whilst Lillard's character is borderline psychopathic it is Mosk that is sitting in the therapist's office!
  
  It's not like the film is a total dud! The social message isn't laid down too thickly like similar movies and it's a fairly engaging piece of work at times. That said, if you want to explore the same themes as those explored in 'Animal Room' but with better pacing and characters, you should try renting 'Pump Up The Volume' (1990) or 'If...'(1968)

  • • J.B. from W. Midlands
    • Posted 06 Sep 2005 16:41

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    In the near future, a student is caught using drugs. He is then put in a controversial rehabilitation program called the "Animal Room" where his life is threatened by the anarchistic youths already there. A violent and apocalyptic movie in the tradition of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, complete with some ...