Dog Pound is a 2010 film directed by Kim Chapiron and co-written with Jeremie Delon. It is a French film which is highly influenced by the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 borstal

Borstal

A borstal was a type of youth prison in the United Kingdom, run by the Prison Service and intended to reform seriously delinquent young people. The word is sometimes used loosely to apply to other kinds of youth institution or reformatory, such as Approved Schools and Detention Centres. The court...

 film Scum

Scum (film)

Scum is a 1979 British crime drama film directed by Alan Clarke, portraying the brutality of life inside a British borstal. The story was originally made for the BBC's Play for Today strand in 1977, however due to the violence depicted in the film, it was withdrawn from broadcast...

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Plot

The movie chronicles the fictional experiences of several youths during their stay in a youth detention center. During which the several young men experience more feelings of rebellion and mistreatment then if they were left out of the detention center. It is more like a learning camp for the real rules of an actual jail. One of the boys 'Davis' is the pretty boy who is uncomfortable and afraid of the more dominant boys of the detention center and ends up befriending Butch, who has anger issues and is therefore made the not the be reckoned with attitude, alpha male and ends up putting all boys that abused his friend Davis, in the down played, vengeful state because he has made it clear that he is in charge now. Davis ends up getting raped while Butch is in the hole and when he finds out what has happened he is more then ever out of control of his emotions and ends up sending the whole detention center into a riot, of which the detention officers have to use physical violence and are forced to bring in a S.W.A.T team to handle the unarmed, blind with anger youths. But the main reason leading up to all of the young men there being angry and starting the riot, is that the most experienced officer in charge of them ends up accidentally killing one of Butch's other close friends 'Angel' because of a painting he made while doing one of the jobs assigned to the four boys makes a joke out of it. while Goodyear the detention officer is having family problems, and takes his anger out on the youth. Butch freaks out and is wrongfully put into the hole. Once he gets out is when the climax of the movies really reaches its point.

Cast

• Adam Butcher
  Adam Butcher
  Adam Butcher is a Canadian film actor who starred as a teenage long-distance runner in Saint Ralph .Born in Cambridge, Ontario, Butcher has an older sister, actress Mandy Butcher...
  
   as Butch
• Shane Kippel
  Shane Kippel
  Shane Warren Kippel is a Canadian television actor. From 2001-2010, he appeared as a regular cast member in the part of Gavin "Spinner" Mason on Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is broadcast on CTV in Canada...
  
   as Davis (Butch's close friend)
• Mateo Morales as Angel (Butch's close friend)
• Slim Twig
  Slim Twig
  -Biography:Slim Twig is the stage and screen persona created by Max Turnbull. He was born in 1988, the son of Toronto-based filmmakers, Ross Turnbull and Jennifer Hazel and graduated from the Claude Watson School of the Arts in 2006. In 2008, Slim was called “an icon-in-the-making...” and named...
  
   as Max
• Taylor Poulin as Banks (Davis and Butches Tormentor)
• Dewshane Williams as Frank
• Lawrence Bayne
  Lawrence Bayne
  Lawrence Bayne is a Canadian actor, born November 11, 1960 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has appeared in various movies and television series, both live action and animated, and also sings/writes with his band The Lawrence Bayne Issue....
  
   as Goodyear (Unit Superviser)
• Trent McMullen
  Trent McMullen
  Trent McMullen is a Canadian actor known for his portrayal of freelance detective Orrie Cather in the A&E TV original series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery , and the series pilot, The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery . In 2010 McMullen starred in Ed Gass-Donnelly's second feature film Small Town Murder...
  
   as Sands
• Jeff McEnery
  Jeff McEnery
  Jeff McEnery is a Canadian comedian from born in 1984 and raised in the small town of Acton, Ontario.He graduated from Humber College’s Comedy: Writing and Performance Program, and in 2004 won the college’s Best First Year Stand-Up Award. He won the Tim Sims Encouragement Award in 2005 and Yuk...
  
  as Loony
• Bryan Murphy as Eckersley