Fierce People (film)
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| Directed by | Griffin Dunne |
| Produced by | Griffin Dunne Nick Wechsler Dirk Wittenborn |
| Screenplay by | Dirk Wittenborn |
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Fierce People by Dick Wittenborn |
| Starring |
Diane Lane Donald Sutherland Anton Yelchin Chris Evans Kristen Stewart |
| Music by | Nick Laird-Clowes |
| Cinematography | William Rexer |
| Edited by | Allyson C. Johnson |
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Industry Entertainment
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| Distributed by |
Lions Gate Films Autonomous Films |
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Running time
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111 minutes |
| Country | United States Canada |
| Language | English Tagalog |
| Box office | $269,755 |
Fierce People is a 2005 independent drama thriller film adapted by Dirk Wittenborn from his 2002 novel of the same name. Directed by Griffin Dunne, it starred Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Anton Yelchin, Kristen Stewart, and Chris Evans. The film explores many facets of family and societal dysfunction, including drug abuse, mental illness and rape.
Trapped in his drug-dependent mother's apartment, 16-year-old Finn Earl (Anton Yelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New York City. He wants to spend the summer in South America studying the Ishkanani Indians (known as the "Fierce People") with his anthropologist father whom he's never met. Finn's plan has to change after he is arrested when he buys drugs for his mother, Lower East Side Liz (Diane Lane), who works as a massage therapist. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guesthouse for the summer on the country estate of her ex-client, the aging billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne (Donald Sutherland).
In Osbourne's world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter the super rich, a tribe portrayed as fiercer and more mysterious than anything the teenager might find in the South American jungle. (Dirk Wittenborn, the author of the novel on which the film is based, grew up in a modest household and felt like an outsider among the super rich in an upper-crust New Jersey enclave.)
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