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Monday, July 28th, 2025

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Looking for a coming of age movie with a tragic end with a dare involving a big cat going wrong

I saw it a long time ago, 10+ years probably. It is about children/preteens, quite dark tone, and the only specific detail that I can remember is the ending, where a dare goes horribly wrong, it goes st like this: one of the teens parents have some kind of an (illegal?) animal park, or maybe just a big house where there are animals, amongst them, a big cat (I remember it as a black leopard/jaguar, but not 100%). One of the child due to a dare, or just to prove bravery by him/herself, goes in that place/cage/dont remember alone. And the big cat kills or seriously injures the kid. My guess for the year would be 1995-2010, probably early 2000s, certainly not really old, small budget, maybe independent, if anyone know the movie Twelve and holding, it felt very similar. AI's couldnt help. Any idea?

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Could this possibly be The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys? That’s a coming of age movie about 4 boys in 1970s Georgia. They attend Catholic school and rebel. At the end, a couple of the boys decide to steal a cougar from the zoo by breaking in and drugging it after hours. As you describe, the prank goes horribly wrong and the kid who goes inside the cage is killed.

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Oh my... Can't thank you enough, that's it! Looking for it for years, no AI-s, no Reddit, noone could answer it. Thank you!!!

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It was a wonderful indie movie whose finale haunted me, too. I thought this was likely it. I’m so glad that I could help you find it again!