Animals

Tim's character: Henry Berst
Release dates: January 17, 1998, US
Directed by: Michael Di Jiacomo
Written by: Michael Di Jiacomo
Also starring: Mili Avital, Rod Steiger, Mickey Rooney, John Turturro
Producers: Richard Dooley, Rainer Mockert, Gabriella Tana

Synopsis

Animals is part reality, part mythic invention as it spins out a narrative which begins with a wonderful prologue depicting a team of French ethnographers who are filming a true eccentric, a tuba-playing toll keeper in the Utah desert. But the focus of the story is a disillusioned and world-weary New York cabbie, Henry Berst (Tim Roth), who, after being robbed, picks up an out-of-town fare and hits the road. It happens that the fare is the three members of the film crew from the prologue, now fifty years later, who want to go to Maryland and meet their long-lost friend Herve.

Thus begins a bizarre journey. When Henry parts their company and falls in love with Fatima Chue, a mysterious southern woman who lives on a pig farm with her brother and mother, his real quest begins.

From: The Sundance Film Festival Film Guide

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