The Tiger Next Door (2009)

Audience Score
40
The Tiger Next Door
The Tiger Next Door is a documentary film that tells the story of a man named Dennis Hill who has been breeding and selling tigers from his backyard in Flat Rock Indiana for over fifteen years Tigers and other big cats are simultaneously an occupation and an obsession for Hill As the film begins Hill has 24 tigers 3 bears 6 leopards and one cougar He claims to know exactly what they are thinking by the look in their eyes He is especially consumed with the prospect of breeding a stripeless white tiger But now after a surprise government inspection hes lost the license that allowed him to keep exotic animals and the state of Indiana is threatening to shut him down He has just five days to find alternate homes for all but three of his brood and to bring his facilities up to code or else lose what he considers to be his lifes work
DirectorCamilla Calamandrei