The film starring David Dastmalchian, Kim Shaw, John Heard is directed by Collin Schiffli. Jude and Bobbie are a young couple undergo bad days: homelessness, no jobs, no aim, no money and addiction. Ultimately, they must face the reality of their circumstance when one of them gets dangerous problem.
The couple's doomed romance feels familiar from numerous other films about addiction, and the movie is downright bad whenever it aspires to visual poetry.
There's no shortage of indie pictures that burrow into the cold realities of drug dependency. But "Animals," like the best of these films, moves beyond mere cautionary tale.
