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Le clan des irréductibles

Original title: Sometimes a Great Notion
  • 1971
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  • 1h 54m
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Le clan des irréductibles (1971)
A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times.
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A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggles to keep their family business alive amid changing times.A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggles to keep their family business alive amid changing times.A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggles to keep their family business alive amid changing times.

  • Director
    • Paul Newman
  • Writers
    • Ken Kesey
    • John Gay
  • Stars
    • Paul Newman
    • Henry Fonda
    • Lee Remick
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Director
      • Paul Newman
    • Writers
      • Ken Kesey
      • John Gay
    • Stars
      • Paul Newman
      • Henry Fonda
      • Lee Remick
    • 48User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 2 nominations total

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    Paul Newman
    Paul Newman
    • Hank
    Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda
    • Henry
    Lee Remick
    Lee Remick
    • Viv
    Michael Sarrazin
    Michael Sarrazin
    • Leeland
    Richard Jaeckel
    Richard Jaeckel
    • Joe Ben
    Linda Lawson
    Linda Lawson
    • Jan
    Cliff Potts
    Cliff Potts
    • Andy
    Sam Gilman
    Sam Gilman
    • John
    Lee de Broux
    Lee de Broux
    • Willard Eggleston
    Jim Burk
    • Biggy Newton
    Roy Jenson
    Roy Jenson
    • Elwood
    Joe Maross
    Joe Maross
    • Floyd Evenwrite
    Roy Poole
    Roy Poole
    • Draeger
    Charles Tyner
    Charles Tyner
    • Les Gibbons
    Bennie E. Dobbins
      Alan Gibbs
      Alan Gibbs
      Mickey Gilbert
      Dick Hudkins
      • Director
        • Paul Newman
      • Writers
        • Ken Kesey
        • John Gay
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      7damianphelps

      A Simple Film About A Family's Life

      Definitely an old school movie where the drama is tied up in day to day living. No great examinations just a family trying to go about their own business and the impacts that their choices have on themselves and their community.

      Fonda is great and Newman just looks like he has been logging his entire life, super convincing.

      The conflicts within the family are frequent but they never allow them to go too far, family is family.

      It won't knock your socks off but its a nice film :)
      8bkoganbing

      Stamper Family Values

      A lot of people seem to be down on this film for reasons I really can't understand. The film seem to stretch everyone's creative levels especially one performer I'll single out later.

      Henry Fonda plays the head of the Stamper clan who own a lot of acreage in Oregon timber country and the family business is cutting logs. Enough to survive, but they do it on their own. But a strike by timber union loggers causes enmity between them and the Stampers who are seen as scabs.

      There are some similarities between Fonda's character and the family patriarch he played in Spencer's Mountain. But whereas Spencer had a noble dignity to him, Ben Stamper is a dissolute old cuss who has enjoyed all the vices known and imparted a love for them unto his children. They would be half brothers Paul Newman and Michael Sarrazin who've also got issues between themselves that may prevent the Stampers from forming a united front.

      Newman directed the film and he had a good eye for the scenery of the Oregon logging country. And he got some good performances from the rest of the cast. One of them Richard Jaeckel got his career role as a Stamper cousin. Newman reached his creative heights in Jaeckel's death scene which was played between him and Jaeckel. It's a long drawn out affair for reasons you'll know if you see the film. It will stay with you forever as it has me since I saw the film when it first came out. Richard Jaeckel got a nomination for Best Supporting Actor and the pity is that he was up against another popular character actor in Ben Johnson who won for The Last Picture Show.

      Sometimes A Great Notion also got a second Oscar nomination for Best Song with We're All His Children by Henry Mancini and Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Bing Crosby recorded a fine version of it on one of his albums. It lost however to theme from Shaft.

      Paul Newman deserved a lot more credit for this film than he got. I think if you see Sometimes A Great Notion you'll agree.
      jmcody

      A fine, workable adaption of an excellent but unfilmable novel

      Kesey's superb epic novel with its shifting points of view and verb tense is far too complex a work to adapt directly. Kesey's prose while exceptionally cinematic in its description and action ironically proves unfilmable.

      That said, Paul Newman and his production team have created a most admirable and solid, if rather top heavy adaption of Kesey's excellent novel.

      The dialogue while rather shallow and weak in spurts (Kesey's rich vernacular is lost)is overcome by a wonderful ensemble cast featuring some of America's finest. Who better that Henry Fonda to play Newman's father? Richard Jaekel richly earns the Oscar nomination as the dim-witted but enthusiastic born again lumberjack Joe-Ben. The famous scene where Newman tries desperately to save Jaekel's character from drowning is heartbreakingly tragic and darkly comic. It is a marvelous example of direction.

      Newman spent a great deal of time in my native Oregon researching the part and the film and his homework shows. Kesey's rich descriptions of the land remain largely intact. The sense of time and place is impressively captured in the photography of rusting metal, dripping ferns, rotting wood and mildewed carpets. This is a film that one can almost smell.

      Newman is one of the finest artists ever to come out of Hollywood. Not only as an actor, but also as a director. He instinctivly knows how to illicit naturalistic, comfortable and utterly human performances from his casts and Sometimes a Great Notion is no exception. Well worth a look. 7 out of 10 stars.
      dedalus-16

      Sometimes a great movie!

      I saw this seventies movie for the first time last night. It must be one of the greats. The story line from Kesey's book, and the direction by Paul Newman are so closely woven and with such impact that there are times when one is left emotionally bare. There's not a fault in the casting,and the background of logging is nicely interwoven into the action bringing up surprise after surprise. The only flaw might be the glamorization of Lee Remick - I doubt that her character would show such a degree of grooming and cosmetic sophistication, but, as ever, Ms. Remick gives a performance that is impeccable. If awards were ever to come PaulNewman's way for direction and/or acting surely they should for this masterpiece.
      bongo_fury

      I wish someone would take another crack at this one.

      I have read Kesey's novel several times over the last 30 years or so. While I see some merit in this movie version, I'd like to see someone have another go at it. The movie only captures the novel in broad strokes. It hits the major point (brother returns to hometown to exact revenge on older sibling), but misses a lot of the flavor. I think Paul Newman, Henry Fonda and Lee Remick were perfect, as were many of the supporting cast. But Michael Sarrazin didn't quite do it for me. Maybe it was the hair, idunno. I always pictured a sort of geeky-looking, bespectacled, beatnick-looking guy with scruffy hair, but still fairly short, and sideburns. Sarrazin probably could have pulled it off, but back in the early 70s, actors were into looking like people from the early 70s.

      But more to the point, the movie needed more back-story. We needed to see Johah Stamper "heading west" with young Henry and his brother. We needed to see Jonah fail and surrender to the dampness of the Pacific Northwest and desert his family. We needed to see young Henry take charge ("we're gonna whup her") and begin the logging business that becomes the crux of the story. Also missed were a lot of great scenes when Henry and Leland were children (Henry rescuing Leland from the Devil's Stovepipe, for one). Also missed was the passing of narrative from character to character. One small portion of the novel is actually narrated by a dog. The novel is written, mostly, in the first person from various points of view. There is a little second person narrative at the beginning of most chapters that pull the reader out of the story to offer additional flavor for the surroundings. Obviously, a novel needs to be pared in order to fit into the standard movie length. It would have to be a rather long movie, three hours or so, to portray the texture presented in the novel. But I'd like to see another go at it, maybe even starring Paul Newman as Henry.

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      • Trivia
        This was the first film ever shown on HBO when the service premiered in 1972.
      • Goofs
        In the fox-hunt scene, when the fox jumps over the fence, it becomes apparent that the fox is wearing a 1/4" black collar with a little tiny bell on it.
      • Quotes

        Hank Stamper: [singing] Don't ever hit your mother with a shovel. It will leave a dull impression on her mind. Paul Newman said the same line in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".

      • Alternate versions
        In the earliest video release version, circa 1982, when Leland first arrives, a crane shot reveals Hank looking down below at the family reunion. In the most current VHS release, circa 1994, the crane shot is edited out and replaced with just a single cut from Viv, with an audio bridge to Hank on the roof.
      • Connections
        Featured in AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda (1978)
      • Soundtracks
        All His Children
        Lyrics by Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman

        Music by Henry Mancini

        Sung by Charley Pride

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      • Release date
        • April 14, 1972 (France)
      • Country of origin
        • United States
      • Language
        • English
      • Also known as
        • Ne lâchez pas d'un pouce!
      • Filming locations
        • Toledo, Oregon, USA
      • Production companies
        • Universal Pictures
        • Newman-Foreman Company
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        • $3,660,000 (estimated)
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 54 minutes
      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.35 : 1

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