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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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6.9/10
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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
    6.9/10
    4.8K
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    • Director
      • Paul Newman
    • Writers
      • Ken Kesey
      • John Gay
    • Stars
      • Paul Newman
      • Henry Fonda
      • Lee Remick
    • 47User 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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      6secondtake

      Sprawling, forced, dramatic, awkward, amazing and disappointing...

      Sometimes a Great Notion (1970)

      This is an amazing story, with some harrowing scenes and really terrific acting. And it's based on a Ken Kesey novel that is one of my favorite books, a sprawling, difficult, layered up masterpiece of some kind, for its time at least, and for when I read it as a 20 year old looking for meaning in life. There are so many threads in the book, powerful themes and small ones, that get interwoven into a vivid, unashamed adventure-romance with interior explosions and characters clashing with nature and cultures clashing of cultures, it's really impossible to make a movie out of it.

      But Paul Newman, as lead character and, yes director (stepping in when the original director left), has tried. The result is grossly unappreciated, because the strengths here make the flaws bearable. The flaws are clear. The casting is uneven. Lee Remick is a character from another movie plopped into this rough and tumble Oregon backwoods scene, and the second leading man, a kind of implied narrator to it all, is played by little known Michael Serrazin, a pretty boy who holds his own but is uninspiring.

      Furthermore, the filming is straight on and meant to show what is happening more than contribute to the ambiance of the experience. There are scenes of machinery and logging that are impressive in their raw scale and masculinity, for sure, but that is partly fast editing at work, and amazing subject material. The rainy coastal landscape, the rambling house on the river, even the dirt bike race and the scenes of the little town all make you yearn for more intensity and involvement, visually.

      The music by Henry Mancini shows the strain of this amazing composer as he moves from the light orchestral work he did in the 1960s ("Moon River," "Pink Panther," "Days of Wine and Roses," etc.) to something embracing country, rock and roll, and contemporary music being used so effectively in New Hollywood films. It's halfway there, but gives a falseness to some of the scenes that gets in the way of the gritty, emotional drama to it all.

      And I mean emotional. Some have criticized Kesey's novel for overachieving. It tries to deal with every big issue there is in one book: individualism and love, above all, but a highly dysfunctional family, the new America of college and drugs vs. the old one of hard work and croneyism, raw beauty in the landscape vs. exploiting nature for commercial gain, and loyalty to family in all its layers of father and sons, sons and lovers, and workers as part of extended family. But that's what makes the book and the movie terrific. The scenes here of Newman doing anything, of Henry Fonda playing the tough as nails dad, and of some of the side actors in their rough daily working roles in the woods are right on. The hospital scene with Newman and Fonda is a small gem, and the famous scene of Newman trying to free his little brother (played by Richard Jaeckel) caught under a log under water is utterly unforgettable. Utterly.

      There is a lot of filler her, lots of falling trees and bikers racing and a building of the toughness of this manly world. But hang in there for the other stuff. And read the book.
      7paulw-18

      Incredible book but so-so movie

      Unfortunately, as much as I love Paul Newman as an actor, the movie version of Ken Kesey's incredible book could have used a more seasoned director for its translation to the big screen. The perfect cast (the book even mentions Hank Stamper as looking like a muscular Paul Newman!), and some great performances (Fonda, Jaeckel, Remick), but the story just doesn't come across on film the way it should. I remember the first time I saw this movie was in the late 70's on TV (Portland's KPTV-12). It was so chopped-up for television that the story, character motivations, and ending made no sense at all to me. I loved Kesey's book "Cookoo's Nest" so read the novel of "Sometimes" to try to make some sense of what the story was all about. The book was an amazingly nuanced work of fiction with a great deal of depth and under-story (reading between the lines); none of which I saw on the TV screening. I later rented the video but even with the unedited version of the film, I found the story very lacking and barely comprehensive. I've recently watched the rental again (2005) and found more in the film than I had remembered, but I still feel that unless you've read the book, you can't truly understand what this movie and the character motivations are all about. They're just barely eluded to in the film version. In spite of all that, it's still a worthwhile movie to watch. If nothing else, it chronicles some great, authentic-looking logging footage. If you can, however, read the novel first and then catch the film. Also, if you ever make it to Newport, Oregon, visit the harbor bar "Bay Haven" where the scenes for the "Snag" were filmed. Tell them the old bartender from the "Embarcadero" sent you. ;-)
      cocaine_rodeo

      Always A Great Movie

      This is one of my favorite movies. It has excellent acting, a great story (by the late great Ken Kesey), and some very intense scenes. I found that Paul Newman's direction was very well done. This is a movie for fans of great character development.

      First, Paul Newman, as usual, did an outstanding job. This is my favorite character. He was able to pull off this very icey dominance, even over his own father. He plays his character like he is Hank Stamper. Paul Newman always does a great job in his movies, but I think this one I especially like because he isn't as likeable as Cool Hand Luke or Fast Eddie (which are two other favorite characters and movies of mine).

      Then there is Henry Fonda, who plays the eldest Stamper, Henry. He was a very interesting character, and Henry Fonda did a great job at playing him. He and Hank both head the family, and he and Paul Newman have a fractured relationship that is sort of crass, but still fun to see them on-screen together.

      Then there is Michael Sarrazin, who plays the outcast Leeland Stamper. He is probably the best character. While all the other Stampers have leather skin and huge scars from wood chips, he has big bushy hair and is not a big barrel chested logger. Hank and Henry treat him like crap almost the whole movie, because he doesn't belong. Leeland just came back from the city, and he came back for the sole purpose of getting even with Hank.

      And Finally, there is Lee Remick, who plays Hank's shut out wife Viv. She is probably the most complex character, simply because she only lets on what she thinks of her situation in little bits. She and Hank used to be wild lovers, but Hank is working so hard because of the logger's strike, he pretty much shuts her out, and so she begins to drift away from Hank.

      My only problem with this movie is that they didn't have the big rights of passage fight between Hank and Leeland. In the book Leeland fought Hank after everything bad happened to the Stampers, as a way to show Hank that he isn't in control. I think that was the biggest part in the novel, and they left it out. But aside from that, I loved this movie.

      Check this movie, or the book out for that matter, if you enjoy strong character development, many tragic events, and stories that take place in the backwoods of Oregon. 9/10
      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.
      8AncientWind

      44 years have gone by since i saw this movie

      The date i don't remember, but the day I do. what i did that day i should say. and the movie is still vividly in my mind. I can see the family interplay pretty clearly, but there is 1 scene clearer then all the others.

      And more worried about creating a spoiler,

      i will only describe it in general terms.

      And that is the Death Scene in the picture, I don't want to mention the players in the scene for fear of spoiling it for others. it isn't a short scene, it felt like an eternity, for me anyway.

      It is heart wrenching, and has haunted me all these years.

      I would like to see this picture again to feel that emotion again.even now just talking around it i feel emotions welling up in me.

      worthwhile movie I would recommend it for anyone.

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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
      • Color
        • Color
      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.35 : 1

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