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Overview

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Director:
Griffin Dunne
Writers (WGA):
Dirk Wittenborn (book)
Dirk Wittenborn (screenplay)
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Release Date:
30 November 2007 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
Every family tree has its nuts. more
Plot:
A massage therapist looks to get out of New York City to join the father of her son, an anthropologist in South American who's studying the Yanomani people. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
Africa Screens more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Diane Lane ... Liz Earl
Anton Yelchin ... Finn Earl

Donald Sutherland ... Ogden C. Osborne

Chris Evans ... Bryce

Kristen Stewart ... Maya

Paz de la Huerta ... Jilly
Blu Mankuma ... Gates

Elizabeth Perkins ... Mrs. Langley

Christopher Shyer ... Dr. Leffler
Gary Chalk ... McCallum (as Garry Chalk)
Ryan McDonald ... Ian

Dexter Bell ... Marcus Gates

Kaleigh Dey ... Paige
Aaron Brooks ... Giacomo

Teach Grant ... Dwayne
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language, drug use, sexuality/nudity and some violence.
Runtime:
USA:107 min | Argentina:135 min
Country:
USA | Canada
Language:
Tagalog | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Eddie Rosales who played the shaman in the movie's dream sequence was actually speaking in Filipino. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the police car takes them away from their apartment it has a stop light out, but when it is arriving at the country house the light is fixed. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Finn Earl: [narrating] There's this tribe in South America called the Ishcanani. That means fierce people.
Finn Earl: They're. They're like the meanest people in the world. They'll cut off your thumbs, and they'll shit in your hammock just like we say hello.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2007-09-08)" (2007) more
Soundtrack:
That Right Ain't Shit more

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6 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
Africa Screens, 20 September 2008
6/10
Author: wesconnorsehny from Earth

Dirk Wittenborn's story, directed by Griffin Dunne, starts to fall apart when, while watching African tribal rituals, the younger generation of characters begins chanting the expletive word for procreation, followed by "Kill!", again, and Again, and AGAIN! It's a scene representative of the film's "tribal" symbolism; the "upstairs/downstairs" cast of characters are varying levels of decadent rich. They act like, and are associated with, tribal savages. Their tribal passion is fueled by alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine.

When one of the characters, in disguise, violently assaults another character, something is lost in the translation. This particular "event" must have been more clearly understood in Wittenborn's original book. "Fierce People" seems like must have come from a terrific novel. On screen, young Anton Yelchin (as Finn Earl) is endearingly huckleberry, in the protagonist's role. Massaging mother Diane Lane (as Liz Earl) and daddy-like Donald Sutherland (as Ogden C. Osborne) help keep it above average.

****** Fierce People (2005) Griffin Dunne ~ Anton Yelchin, Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland

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