Dog Pound

Name: Dog Pound
Genre: Drama
Released: March 29, 2013
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 57

2013

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Elephant Eye Films | Release Date: March 29, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: Three juvenile delinquents struggle to survive at a correctional center while under the watchful eye of an experienced guard.

Director: Kim Chapiron

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Mar 25, 2013

Chapiron stubbornly avoids an uplifting message, portraying his dangerous setting as a demonstration of virility that leads to madness. Read full review

Philip Kemp

Mar 25, 2013

With largely improvised dialogue and a cast including genuine ex-offenders, Chapiron captures a powerful stench of authenticity. Read full review

Joseph Jon Lanthier

Mar 25, 2013

The plot willfully denies our satisfaction, often at the risk of compromising its own structural integrity. Read full review

The Guardian Xan Brooks

Mar 25, 2013

Perhaps this tells us nothing new about life on the inside in the US (there are rapes, riots and suicides), but it at least handles its brief with pace and precision. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Mar 28, 2013

Although it has a visceral intensity, this teen-centered prison movie doesn't avoid the familiar tropes of its genre. Read full review

Empire Nev Pierce

Mar 25, 2013

Visceral and inquisitive, this well researched movie offers a punchy insight to prison life. Unfortunately, it is a familiar and tepid storyline. Read full review

David Fear

Mar 26, 2013

Dog Pound only rarely finds the live-wire energy needed to make up for its amateur cast and staunch adherence to well-worn archetypes: cell-block bullies, sadistic guards, fresh-fish innocents, etc. Neither the film’s bark nor its bite leaves much of a mark. Read full review

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XBloodEagle88x

Oct 10, 2020

Coming from someone who has spent a few years behind bars... I can honestly say that this film portrayed a dark and brutally honest experience of life inside correctional institutions.

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Nesj3

May 13, 2014

A good movie, gives you the urge to want to kick some peoples ass.
Good action movie with few hand to hand fighting scene.

The ending was a little disappointing.

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foxgrove

Jan 23, 2015

An easy to watch genre movie which calls on all the tried and trusted ingredients that includes violence, rape, drugs and gangs beating up on the weak. It's all very familiar. In fact you could be forgiven for thinking that you've already seen it before. Nevertheless it's short, eminentlyAn easy to watch genre movie which calls on all the tried and trusted ingredients that includes violence, rape, drugs and gangs beating up on the weak. It's all very familiar. In fact you could be forgiven for thinking that you've already seen it before. Nevertheless it's short, eminently watchable, and if you like this sort of thing, then it's the sort of thing you'll like.… Expand

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AerowinYeager

Jun 27, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don’t see the point of this movie. For the majority of the film I just saw bad people doing bad choises after the other putting themselves in bad positions. Ones the movie gets to the part where the polise do wrong by them kids I didn’t feel bad for them. By that point I already viewed them all as well on their way to become future murderer, rapist and wife-beaters. Yes I know police brutality is wrong but damn has this movie put some darn unlikable characters on the receiving end of it.… Expand

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