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Though the setting Steve’s Buscemi (also acting in the movie) chose for Animal Factory is Holmesburg Prison, this location depicts the well known Californian prison San Quentin. This movie is an adaptation of Edward Bunker’s novel on life in San Quentin, the same actor who played Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs.

A young suburban fish that goes by the name of Ron Decker (Edward Furlong), has just been caught and judged for some drugs charges. As his entrance in the animal factory penitentiary, he will have to choose, as any other movie would describe it, between putting someone down or being someone’s bitch, for he is just a young good looking 21 old youngster from a good neighborhood, son of a wealthy businessman.

Fortunately for Ron, he gets acquaintance with almost the owner of the place, Earl Copen (Willem Dafoe), a log term inmate who almost rules the penitentiary. For whatever reason, Earl will choose to take the boy under him and protect him against the psycho rapers always waiting for a chance to get hard on the kid. This is usually a side, most of the prison movies won’t show as it is in this film, the sensitivity, altruist feelings that father figure Earl will display for Ron, with nothing in exchange.

Earl’s inner circle is formed by almost unrecognizable Mickie Rourke playing the place’s queen, hill-billy played by Jake La Botz, Vito (Danny Trejo) and  In one of the hot moments of the picture, Ron would be attacked by a sex-starved gorilla (Tom Arnold) and the two plan to retaliate on the attacker, before the last makes his move first. The two would attack the violent inmate but wont kill him. After this, the boy will get another 5 years in the joint, for he is still consider a danger to society. Good critics for this movie at he Sundance Film Festival of the same year.