# Animal Factory (2000)

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**Runtime**: 94 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Steve Buscemi
**Written by**: Edward Bunker, John Steppling
**Starring**: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, Mark Boone Junior, Seymour Cassel, Mickey Rourke

> *On the inside the rules are brutal and the stakes are high.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You wake up in San Quentin with a five-year stretch and no survival skills. Earl shelters you from predators but asks you to return the favor teaching him to read. The prison’s ruthless economy forces you to learn fast.

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