Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Jonah
Paps
Ma
Joel
Manny
Dustin
Dustin’s Grandpa
Woman in Van
Clerk
**_A poignant and poetic evocation of childhood_** > _We were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful - little animals, clawing at what we needed._ - Justin Torres; _We the Animals_ (2011) A remarkably contained and intimate story featuring only five main cast members and around ten locations, _We the Animals_ is about a young boy awakening to the fact that he's homosexual. Equal parts disassociated lyricism and warts-and-all grittiness, in attempting to untangle the struggles concomitant with his burgeoning queerness, the film looks at issues such as the ever-increasing d...
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Original LanguageEnglish
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