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Animal Room (1995)

Animal Room poster
Directed by
Craig Singer
Genre
drama film, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A bullied teenager who uses drugs faces off against a sadistic bully who torments him. The film is set in a high school and includes a punk rock band cameo.

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What happens

Animal Room is a 1995 American thriller drama film directed, produced, and written by Craig Singer and starring Neil Patrick Harris as a bullied drug-using teenager and Matthew Lillard as the bully who loves to torment Harris's character. The film is referred to as a modernized version of A Clockwork Orange and features an appearance from the punk rock band Misfits. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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