Fierce People
by Griffin Dunne
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Actor: Anton Yelchin, Chris Evans, Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Kristen StewartDirector: Griffin Dunne
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: Griffin Dunne
Producer: Dirk Wittenborn
Writer: Dirk Wittenborn
Producer: Keith Addis
Producer: Michael Paseornek
Producer: Nick Wechsler
Producer: Ogden Gavanski
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product features:
- Actors: Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Anton Yelchin, Chris Evans, Kristen Stewart.
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC.
- Language: English. Subtitles: English, Spanish.
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
- Rated: R. Run Time: 107 minutes.
DVD Reviews of Fierce People
DVD Review: Unbelievable people
Summary: 2 Stars
If they gave an Oscar for most contrived story, this film would be a nominee. The film opens with Finn (Anton Yelchin), the teenage protagonist and narrator, viewing a copy of his father's documentary of a primitive South American tribe whose name translates "fierce people." Finn's father is a noted anthropologist who, after discovering the fierce people, returned to to the States just long enough to deliver a few lectures and impregnate Finn's mother (Diane Lane), then a college student, before returning to the jungles of South America. Although he never married Finn's mother, Dad has kept in touch with his son, and he has given him the next best thing to a live-in father: a copy of his documentary. I have read that the book on which this is based puts the story in the late-`70s, which, apparently, accounts for the documentary being in the form of a 16-mm film. Finn drags documentary and his trusty 16-mm projector with him through the film, drawing upon the documentary for wisdom and strength, or, perhaps, watching it simply because he's as bored with the goings-on around him as I was. We, too, get to watch stretches of the documentary. The parallels between the primitive fierce people of the documentary and the rich depicted in this film being obvious to anyone with an IQ above 80.
How do Finn and his mother find themselves living among the family of Ogden Osborne (Donald Sutherland), the seventh richest man in the United States? Apparently, on the strength of Finn's mother, a masseuse, having worked her magic on Mr. Osborne (or, perhaps, she has her own 16-mm film of those sessions). At any rate, it requires only a phone call from Finn's mother for Mr. Osborne to intercede in a legal problem confronting Finn, and then to whisk mother and son away and ensconce them in an enchanting cottage on his estate. There, Finn comes among the family Osborne, a cast of characters designed to put an exclamation mark to F. Scott Fitzgerald's observation that the rich are different. In the course of all this, Finn encounters romance, sex, and a lot of strange hokem in the woods of the estate (which even at night are extraordinarily well lit); learns the Osborne family's secret; and is sodomized by a mystery assailant whose identity is apparent long before the writers intend it. Thanks to these experiences, and to the insight gained from watching Dad's documentary, it is a wiser Finn who, with his mother and an escort of the South American fierce people (really!), leaves the Osborne estate at film's end. I didn't believe a minute of it.
I give the film two stars because of Donald Sutherland's presence. The role of Ogden Osborne doesn't require much of Mr. Sutherland, but watching him on cruise control is more interesting than watching most other actors in overdrive. I've never been impressed by Diane Lane's performances or with the films in which she has had major roles. Using Amazon's rating system, I would give her career to date three stars. Fortunately for her, a three-star actress is an asset in this film.
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