Dog Pound

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Dog Pound

2010

1h 28m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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A car thief (Mateo Morales), a drug dealer (Shane Kippel) and a violent criminal (Adam Butcher) face brutal inmates at a correctional facility.

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

Mar 28, 2013

2.5/5

Without a strong political point (unlike its source material), "Dog Pound" feels hollow and hopeless.

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David Fear

Time Out

Mar 26, 2013

2/5

Neither the film's bark nor its bite leaves much of a mark.

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Joseph Jon Lanthier

Slant Magazine

Mar 25, 2013

2.5/4

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

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James McMahon

NME (New Musical Express)

May 20, 2021

2.5/5

The thing that's so audacious about Dog Pound is how wholesale its plot, tonality and execution is lifted from Scum.

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Frank Lovece

Film Journal International

Apr 1, 2013

Overheated melodrama of inmates at a juvenile detention facility hits all the prison-movie clichés.

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kendall M.

@RT53951585 Jun 1, 2026

😜😜 it was a very good movie, ending made me sad but yk..

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Steven F.

@SteveGotScored Feb 22, 2026

One of the most powerful jail movies of all time!

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Jeremy K

@Knightwalker Jan 26, 2026

Should be called Dog S**t. What a terrible disappointment this was, absolutely speechless. Good, acting, terrible plot terrible story terrible everything besides the acting -10 out of 10

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Gareth D

@HiGarethDavies Feb 21, 2023

A rough watch, but does not have the visceral intensity of Scum or the sharp political commentary.

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Matthew W

@Matthew1972 Oct 22, 2020

In this obvious US remake of the classic Brit borstal flick "Scum", Kim Chapiiron directs a hard hitting if watered down & far less brutal version of the horrors faced inside a young offenders institution, with inmates battling for supremacy.

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May 6, 2020

I loved it! I truly believed that everything that happened in this movie may actually occur in real life..

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Synopsis

A car thief (Mateo Morales), a drug dealer (Shane Kippel) and a violent criminal (Adam Butcher) face brutal inmates at a correctional facility.

Director: Kim Chapiron
Producer: Georges Bermann
Screenwriter: Jeremie Delon, Kim Chapiron
Production Co: Canal+, Partizan
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 10, 2014
Runtime: 1h 28m

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