America's Most Dangerous Pets (2011)

Original title

Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets

Directed by

Jamie Pickup

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

59 min

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Louis Theroux visits Americans who keep wild animals like bears and big cats as pets. He talks to them about why they do it and sees the sometimes dangerous situations that arise. The film spends time with Joe Exotic at his animal park in Oklahoma.

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What happens

Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets is a British television documentary film presented by and featuring Louis Theroux. It was first broadcast on 30 October 2011. It was released on Netflix as Beware of the Tiger. It is notable for being the first documentary to feature Joe Exotic, who would later gain worldwide fame as a result of the 2020 Netflix documentary Tiger King. The programme follows Theroux as he travels to the United States to meet people who own animals normally found in the wild including bears, big cats and dangerous primates. In the programme, Theroux visits GW Exotic Animal Foundation in Oklahoma and meets Joe Exotic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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