SummaryThree juvenile delinquents struggle to survive at a correctional center while under the watchful eye of an experienced guard.
Directed By:Kim Chapiron
Written By:Jeremie Delon, Kim Chapiron
Dog Pound
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Mixed or Average
57
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
38% Positive
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Mar 25, 2013
83
Chapiron stubbornly avoids an uplifting message, portraying his dangerous setting as a demonstration of virility that leads to madness.
Mar 25, 2013
80
With largely improvised dialogue and a cast including genuine ex-offenders, Chapiron captures a powerful stench of authenticity.
User score
Generally Favorable
73% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
13% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
13% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Oct 10, 2020
10
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.
Jan 23, 2015
7
An easy to watch genre movie which calls on all the tried and trusted ingredients that includes violence, ****, 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.
Mar 25, 2013
63
The plot willfully denies our satisfaction, often at the risk of compromising its own structural integrity.
Mar 25, 2013
60
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.
Mar 28, 2013
50
Although it has a visceral intensity, this teen-centered prison movie doesn't avoid the familiar tropes of its genre.
Mar 26, 2013
40
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.
Mar 25, 2013
40
Visceral and inquisitive, this well researched movie offers a punchy insight to prison life. Unfortunately, it is a familiar and tepid storyline.
May 13, 2014
7
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.
Production Company:
- Partizan Films
- Grana Productions
- Mars Films
- Canal+
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Téléfilm Canada
- Angoa-Agicoa
Release Date:Mar 29, 2013
Duration:1 h 31 m
Rating:TV-MA
Tagline:Fighting Back Is The Only Way Out
Awards
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
