Noah's Ark (1999)
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29% of users liked it
(448 ratings)
The biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood gets a decidedly unusual retelling in this film, produced as a two-part TV movie and first aired on NBC in May 1999. Noah Jon Voight is an ordinary laborer who one day begins receiving messages from God. It seems the Lord has a special assignment for… More The biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood gets a decidedly unusual retelling in this film, produced as a two-part TV movie and first aired on NBC in May 1999. Noah Jon Voight is an ordinary laborer who one day begins receiving messages from God. It seems the Lord has a special assignment for him: since God is planning on destroying the world with a massive flood, he wants Noah to build a giant ark and fill it with one male and one female of each animal on earth. So why Noah of all people? As God tells him, "You fit the bill. Good times, bad times, you believe in me." And why a 500-foot-long ark? "I think big! I made the world in seven days!" Joining Noah on the trip of a lifetime is his wife Naamah (Mary Steenburgen); those not invited along for the ride are F. Murray Abraham as Lot, Carol Kane as his wife Sarah, and James Coburn as a peddler. Some video versions run 140 minutes. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Irvin
- Written By
- Peter Barnes
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Television, Classics
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Aug 29, 1999 Wide
- Studio
- Artisan Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Widgett Walls, Needcoffee.com
The answer to the question of how to make God frown.
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Widgett Walls, Needcoffee.com
Even though God promised never to destroy us with water again, this film would be enough to change His mind. It is the Battlefield Earth of biblical epics.
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Cast
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Jon Voight
as Noah
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Mary Steenburgen
as Naamah
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F Murray Abraham
as Lot
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Carol Kane
as Sarah
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James Coburn
as The Peddler
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Mark Bazeley
as Shem
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Jonathan Cake
as Japheth
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Alexis Denisof
as Ham
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Emily Mortimer
as Esther
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Sydney Poitier
as Ruth
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Sonya Walger
as Miriam
