Animal Factory

Animal Factory

Infobox Film
name = Animal Factory


writer = Edward Bunker (novel and screenplay) and John Steppling
starring = Willem Dafoe
Edward Furlong
Danny Trejo
Mickey Rourke
Tom Arnold
Seymour Cassel
J.C. Quinn
Steve Buscemi
director = Steve Buscemi
producer = Steve Buscemi
Julie Yorn
music = John Lurie
editing = Kate Williams
distributor = Franchise Pictures
released = October 22, 2000
runtime = 94 min.
language = English
budget = unknown | imdb_id = 0204137

"Animal Factory" is a film about life in prison, set in San Quentin and directed by actor Steve Buscemi. It was made in 2000.

Edward Furlong plays a young man named Ron Decker, who is sent to prison for drug possession, and Willem Dafoe is veteran con Earl Copen who takes Decker under his wing and introduces him into his own gang. Copen is the type of prisoner who has been behind bars long enough that, unlike most prisoners, he prefers his cell to society. Not only does Copen know how to survive behind bars, he knows how to thrive in the small society of prison convicts. Copen's knowledge of the legal system and the administrative side of the prison are shown as especially useful in this regard.

In the film "Finding Nemo" Dafoe - as a voice actor - played a virtually identical role only the prison in that film was an Aquarium. "Animal Factory" was filmed on location at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Fact|date=April 2007 Filming was completed in 30 days, two days longer than originally scheduled. Director Steve Buscemi employed hundreds of prisoners from Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility,Fact|date=April 2007 the prison that replaced Holmesburg Prison in 1995.

The film is based upon the novel "The Animal Factory" by writer Edward Bunker, with whom Buscemi starred in "Reservoir Dogs", Buscemi as Mr. Pink, Bunker as Mr. Blue.

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