Animal is a 2005 direct-to-video

Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...

 film starring Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames

Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames is an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Baby Boy, Don King: Only in America, and the Mission: Impossible film series.-Early life and education:...

, Terrence Howard

Terrence Howard

Terrence Dashon Howard is an American actor. Having his first major role in the 1995 film Mr. Holland's Opus, which subsequently led to a number of roles in films and high visibility among African American audiences. Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of well-reviewed television...

, Jim Brown

Jim Brown

James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News...

 and Chazz Palminteri

Chazz Palminteri

Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri is an American actor and writer, best known for his performances in The Usual Suspects, A Bronx Tale, and his Academy Award nominated role for Best Supporting Actor in Bullets Over Broadway....

. It was directed by David J. Burke

David J. Burke

David J. Burke, born 8 November 1948 in Raleigh, North Carolina, is an executive producer, screenwriter and film and television director.Burke has produced Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, seaQuest DSV, TriBeCa, and other shows.-External links:...

 and written by David C. Johnson. The film's profits were the subject of a lawsuit against the film's distributor, DEJ Productions

DEJ Productions

DEJ Productions studio distributed 225 films in just eight years, including the Academy Award winning Monster starring Charlize Theron and the multiple Academy Award winning Crash which won Best Picture of the Year. DEJ was a film acquisition company which began in 1998, shortly after the...

. The case was still active into the year 2011. It was followed up by a 2007 sequel

Sequel

A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, or music that continues the story of or expands upon issues presented in some previous work...

, Animal 2. The story of the William Lynch speech

William Lynch Speech

The William Lynch speech is an address purportedly delivered by William Lynch to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony...

 is mentioned in the movie, and passed on from father to son to grandson. The movie holds that the story is factual.

Plot

• Ving Rhames
  Ving Rhames
  Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames is an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Baby Boy, Don King: Only in America, and the Mission: Impossible film series.-Early life and education:...
  
  - James "Animal" Allen
• Terrence Howard
  Terrence Howard
  Terrence Dashon Howard is an American actor. Having his first major role in the 1995 film Mr. Holland's Opus, which subsequently led to a number of roles in films and high visibility among African American audiences. Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of well-reviewed television...
  
   – Darius Allen
• Jim Brown
  Jim Brown
  James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News...
  
   – Berwell
• Chazz Palminteri
  Chazz Palminteri
  Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri is an American actor and writer, best known for his performances in The Usual Suspects, A Bronx Tale, and his Academy Award nominated role for Best Supporting Actor in Bullets Over Broadway....
  
   – Kassada
• Black Child – Spyda
• Taraji P. Henson
  Taraji P. Henson
  Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Yvette in Baby Boy , Shug in Hustle and Flow and Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2009...
  
  – Ramona

External links

• Animal at Videoeta