The Clan of the Cave Bear

The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)

  • 13% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 47% of users liked it
    (6,541 ratings)

Cinematographer Michael Chapman directed this John Sayles adaptation of Jean M. Auel's best-selling ode to Cro-Magnon women. The story begins at the moment in pre-history when the last of the Neanderthal men were becoming extinct and the superior race of Cro-Magnons were starting to supersede them.… More

R, 1 hr. 40 min.
Directed By
Michael Chapman
Written By
Jean M. Auel, John Sayles
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Jan 17, 1986 Wide
On DVD
Nov 9, 1999
Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan

    As the cave wall says, stay with the book.

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    Imagine a chick-flick "Quest for Fire" that makes no sense.

  • Shane Burridge, rec.arts.movies.reviews

    A catalogue of second-best decisions

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Curtis L


    Slow and pointless. Lacks great elements like Quest for Fire, which had Ron Pearlman and tons of monkey people fights.

  • Dean M


    The perfect movie for Darryl Hannah. She does an excellent job with use her sign languages in her character as a cavewoman by communicating each other.

  • Byron B


    I've seen some bad reviews of this, even the author of the book, on which this is based, evidently didn't like it. I did like it though. I thought the minimal use of spoken dialog and consistent primitive sign language was well done. The subtitles did not distract, they… More

  • Marion R


    What did I just watch? This is strange and I really wasn't that interested.

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