Animal Factory

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Animal Factory
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Directed by	Steve Buscemi
Produced by	Steve Buscemi Julie Yorn
Written by	Edward Bunker (novel and screenplay) and John Steppling
Starring	Willem Dafoe Edward Furlong Danny Trejo Mickey Rourke Tom Arnold Seymour Cassel J.C. Quinn Steve Buscemi
Music by	John Lurie
Editing by	Kate Williams
Distributed by	Franchise Pictures
Release date(s)	October 22, 2000
Running time	94 min.
Language	English
Budget	unknown
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Animal Factory is a film about life in prison, set in San Quentin and directed by actor Steve Buscemi. It was made in 2000.

Edward Furlong plays a young man named Ron Decker, who is sent to prison for drug possession, and Willem Dafoe is veteran con Earl Copen who takes Decker under his wing and introduces him into his own gang. Copen is the type of prisoner who has been behind bars long enough that, unlike most prisoners, he prefers his cell to society. Not only does Copen know how to survive behind bars, he knows how to thrive in the small society of prison convicts. Copen's knowledge of the legal system and the administrative side of the prison are shown as especially useful in this regard.

In the film Finding Nemo Dafoe - as a voice actor - played a virtually identical role only the prison in that film was an Aquarium. Animal Factory was filmed on location at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^{[citation needed]} Filming was completed in 30 days, two days longer than originally scheduled. Director Steve Buscemi employed hundreds of prisoners from Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility,^{[citation needed]} the prison that replaced Holmesburg Prison in 1995.

The film is based upon the novel The Animal Factory by writer Edward Bunker, with whom Buscemi starred in Resevoir Dogs, Buscemi as Mr. Pink, Bunker as Mr. Blue.