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starring: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau, Neil Kroetschdirected by: Richard Attenborough
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767847063
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767847067
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 15, 2000
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 20957
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Product Description:
The true story of a 1930s frontier trapper who adopted the ways of the wild and found love among its people. After discovering that the woods of the great north were being threatened with extinction his passion leads him on a crusade to fight for the land hes come to love. Subtitles in english and spanish. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/22/2008 Starring: Pierce Brosnan Annie Galipeau Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Richard Attenborough
Amazon.com:
Richard Attenborough's passion weighs so heavily on every frame of Grey Owl, the true story of a pioneering conservationist in the Canadian wilderness, that it tends to smother the characters. Pierce Brosnan is stiff, deliberate and terse as Archie Grey Owl, a part Scotch Native American adopted and raised by a Canadian Ojibwa tribe. He gets by as a trapper, hunting guide, and sometime writer, but becomes an internationally revered activist in the 1930s when he publishes a book on the vanishing wilderness. Annie Galipeau is the native Canadian woman who sees through his tough hide and secretive quiet: 'Yeah, I know. You're a loner. You have to live in the wilderness. I hear it everyday.' But she doesn't pierce his most zealously guarded secret, a distracting subplot that most of the audience figures out in no time. Attenborough's hushed reverence for Archie's dream slows an already lugubrious drama, and Brosnan all too often comes off as a walking cliché, his flat speech and long, slow stares a Brit's idea of a movie Indian. The real star of the film is the magnificent Canadian wilderness: carpets of forests, clear crystal lakes, and vast blue skies. There's no doubting Attenborough's good intentions, and his love for the wilderness is felt in every gorgeous frame, but somewhere in the forest he loses track of his story. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Sweet & Fine
If you just take the movie on its own terms, its own of the sweetest, finest movies you will find. You don't need to be an environmentalist or a native americanist to appreciate this wonderful movie. Just being human will do.
Rating: - Grey Owl movie review
Seems to me that this movie does a creditable job with a difficult subject: Grey Owl (aka Archie Belaney).
That Attenborough undertook the telling is a tribute to him.
Annie Gallipeau is too beautiful to describe and is a perfect fit for the Mohawk woman Annahareo.
Perhaps the movie is a little glossy: for instance, it doesn't mention Archie Belaney's four other wives. An untidy fact. Nor do I recall seeing anything about his excessive drinking.
Rating: - Keep An Open Mind
I must admit that when I first saw this DVD jacket at a video store I scoffed at it. Pierce Brosnan play an Native American? Yeah, right. Last night I was just about to go to bed and this movie came on. I said to myself, I've got to see this. As I watched I became intrigued by the subtle hint that something was amiss about the Grey Owl character. It was very late at night, but I was not sleepy because this movie is incredible.
This is a moving story based on the actual life of ... Read More
Rating: - Overlooked but wonderful for the right viewer
Not the typical film you expect to see with action and complex plots, and this film will not appeal to most who are not interested in environmental causes or Native Americans. However, slow as it is, it is well done and well acted, and I can see how Pierce Brosnan resembles the real Archie Belaney now that I have seen his picture online. A sleeper that will only be precious to a few, but if you are one of those, check this film out!
Rating: - Fantastic Movie
You cannot determine whether to laugh or cry. I guarantee you will do both. I love this movie and would recommend to the highest!!
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