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Release Date: June 25, 2010 (NY)
On DVD: January 25, 2011
Genre: Drama, Foreign
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writer: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou
Cast: Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis
Studio: Kino International
Running Time: 94 minutes
MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Focusing on three teenagers confined to an isolated country estate, "Dogtooth" tells the story of a nuclear family tightly run by über-controlling parents.

While the trio is being educated, entertained and exercised in the manner that their parents deem appropriate (i.e. without any influence from the outside world), the trio spends their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any outside word is instantly assigned a new meaning, so "the...

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Nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture, the Greek film Dogtooth is one of the best - and also the strangest - movies of the last year. An exploration of humanity without the typical confines set by modern society, or something along those lines, Dogtooth is compelling, alluring, troubling and memorable.

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