Animals (2022 film)

Animals is a 2022 American black comedy psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and produced by Shyamalan and Judd Apatow. A joint collective effort to commit to the film's production was made by Blinding Edge Pictures and Apatow Productions. It was produced by Nickelodeon Movies and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film stars McKenna Grace, Dakota Fanning, Collin Dean, Ella Anderson, Kristen Wiig, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Oscar Isaac, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Dave Franco. The film was highly acclaimed by both critics and audiences for its visuals, humor, themes, cinematography, Shyamalan's screenplay and direction, musical score and performances, particularly Grace and Fanning. Animals is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. The film received numerous accolades; it won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 95th Academy Awards, where it won all awards for which it was nominated, including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. At age 16, Grace became the youngest Best Actress winner in Oscar history. This remains the most Academy Awards won by a single film, and is the current record for the highest clean sweep at the Oscars. The film was also a commercial success, grossing $448 million on a production budget of $87 million.

Cast
McKenna Grace as Linda Hendrickson

Dakota Fanning as Caitlin Anderson

Collin Dean as Mark Johnson

Ella Anderson as Chloe Lewis

Kristen Wiig as Jennifer Hendrickson

Paul Rudd as Seth Hendrickson

Jonah Hill as Gary

Oscar Isaac as Garrett Alvarez

Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Tom Canny

Dave Franco as Nick Bass

Craig Robinson as Lenny

Seth Rogen as Steve

Release
The film was released on June 3, 2022.

Music
The film's score was composed by Shyamalan's frequent collaborator James Newton Howard, who worked with Shyamalan beginning with The Sixth Sense (1999) to After Earth (2013). Howard's score is a mixture of orchestral and ambient synthwave elements.

Transcript
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Critical reception
The film holds an approval rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.