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starring: Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, F. Murray Abraham, Carol Kane, James Coburndirected by: John Irvin
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781574927498
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6305468427
Label: Hallmark
Manufacturer: Hallmark
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hallmark
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Running Time: 150 minutes
Sales Rank: 35888
Studio: Hallmark
Theatrical Release Date: May 02, 1999
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Another in Robert Salmi's march of modern TV classics, Noah's Ark brings the ultimate disaster story to the small screen with impressive effects and handsome production design. 'Liberties were taken for dramatic purposes,' warns the opening credits and, to be sure, this shouldn't be taken as gospel (pardon the pun). Noah (Jon Voight), the last good man on Earth, is spared from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and chosen to build an ark to save his family and the creatures of the Earth from a cleansing flood. Like a bad penny, his best friend, Lot (F. Murray Abraham), a decadent hedonist turned brigand, keeps turning up in the most unlikely places, including a postapocalyptic sea battle that owes more to Waterworld than the Old Testament. It's an entertaining if episodic story led by an appropriately humble Voight, with Mary Steenburgen as his whiny wife (she musters a surprising amount of dignity for the part) and James Coburn as a jolly peddler. Jim Henson's Creature Shop fills up the floating zoo with a charming array of animals. It never compels as Salmi's previous telefilm epics, notably The Odyssey and Merlin, but liberal amounts of deadpan anachronistic humor (Lot and his wife, played by Carol Kane, come across as nothing less than comic-strip couple the Bickersons come to life) and spectacular scenes of destruction keep the film aloft through its lengthy running time. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not what i expected
it was nice to see all the special effects of animals and the flood but the story was totally out. I don't get why they added so many irrelevant parts to the story, like when Lot was trying to take over the boat, or when Noah's family went a little crazy. Maybe this was for the kids but it was how it was written in the Scriptures.
Rating: - This is not the God of the Bible
I got this movie bundled with "Jonah, A VeggieTales Movie", recently at Sam's Club. I was sadly disappointed in this film. As other reviews have very well mentioned, this film is not based on the Bible.
This movie starts out with a war scene in a violent, sex-crazed society. I can give it that, I'd imagine the pre-flood society to be something like this. Then it just goes down hill, we are introduced to Noah's friend "Lot", and yes this is apparently the Lot in the bible because ... Read More
Rating: - should be zero stars
I made the mistake of buying this at Sam's without reading the reviews here first. The negative reviews were totally accurate. As I watched, I kept hoping for at least a clip that I could show my church youth group since we're studying Genesis right now. Not only is it horribly inaccurate, it's downright blasphemous. (It said God can make a mistake!) I was disgusted over and over again by all the things other already mentioned... The issue of Noah taking Abraham's role and asking God not to destroy ... Read More
Rating: - Far beyond "poetic license"...
My wife bought this movie thinking it might be somewhat related to the story of Noah described in Genesis. Instead, they combined the story of Noah with that of Abraham and Lot, Sodom and Gomorah, and anything else the director had heard of from the Bible, and quite a bit just straight out of a Hollywood writer's doped-up brain. The opening credit talks about taking poetic license with the story, but I assumed this was to add in dramatic elements and theatrical depth in a very cut-and-dried Biblical account. ... Read More
Rating: - the worst Bible's based movie I've ever seen. AVOID IT please
I couldn't finish watching it. This is a terrible movie. The worst movie I've ever seen. I don't uderstand how Jon Voight accepted this project.
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