Anton Yelchin, Chris Evans, Diane Lane
Sixteen-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to hel...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 5, 2008
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Flixster Reviews (401)
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August 10, 2009Subject matter turned very heavy about halfway into the film, but ends very nicely. I liked it...
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March 2, 2009Extremely weird film which works- It's a coming of age drama filled with odd characters and a charming set. The script is well written and the performances are all very good. Fierce People has drama, comedy and tragedy.
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September 11, 2008With his chemically dependent mother (Diane Lane) trying to find her soul again, young Finn (Anton Yelchin) is taken away from an ideal summer in the African wilds with his anthropologist father and is forced to travel to the vast estate of billionaire Ogden C. Osborne (Donald Su...( read more)
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July 3, 2008Are the customs of a rich family like those of a primitive South American band of natives? That is the premise of this movie. There are those in the rich family who stop at nothing to protect their interests. The movie is better than most these days.
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November 2, 2009"Fierce People" exists because it is an interesting story, interestingly told. No need for massive effects, massive sets, massive promotional budget or massive push of Happy Meal toys. It is what it is, a slice of someone's life, who deserves better and learns the hard way that b...( read more)
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September 26, 2009Intensely stupid movie that I caught on Sundance (they constantly make me question why I still keep them on my cable package, but then they show a Cassavettes marathon and I renew them). I can't believe that talented actors like Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland read this script a...( read more)
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September 14, 2009If you had told me beforehand I'd include it in the same sentence as 'The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys' or 'The Chumscrubber', I'd have laughed and said that was unlikely. But this deserves to be on that short list of dark, quirky, and emotionally moving independent films.
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Critic Reviews
September 7, 2007
Kyle Smith, New York Post
September 7, 2007
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com
Too bad this wasn't made twenty-five years ago, when it still had a chance of being accepted by the masses because it was quirky. full review
September 3, 2007
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Structured around the type of analogy that makes one pine for total sensory failure, a desire amplified by the filmmakers' clear self-satisfaction with what they believe to be a clever narrative conceit. full review
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January 17, 2009everyone should watch this movie if simply for the fact that kristen stewart plays in it.
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