Finding your place in the Food Chain: Animal Kingdom (2010)

Last Saturday I had quite the Netflix binge, watching three episodes of “Battlestar Galatica,” the Steve Martin classic The Jerk, and the Aussie indie crime drama Animal Kingdom. I’ll focus on the last one, a Sundance award-winning thriller following a family of bank robbers as they feel the heat and turn on each other.

Written and directed by first-timer David Michôd, Animal Kingdom is the story of Josh, a seventeen-year old kid who ends up moving in with his extended family, who happen to be less than stellar influences. His uncles snort lines and peddle dope, his grandmother gives her boys lingering kisses on the lips