Fierce People

2005
R
2h 15m

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6.4/10

7.5K

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Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Perkins, Paz de la Huerta, Chris Evans, Christopher Shyer, Kristen Stewart, Anton Yelchin, and Jeff Westmoreland in Fierce People (2005)

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A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Ishkanani people, moves in with a wealthy e... Read allA massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Ishkanani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Ishkanani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

7.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Eddie Rosales who played the shaman in the movie's dream sequence was actually speaking in Filipino.

Goofs
When the police car takes them away from their apartment it has a stop light out, but when it is arriving at the country house the light is fixed.

Quotes
[last lines]
Finn Earl: We are the sum of all of the people that we have ever met. You change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Shoot 'Em Up/Eastern Promises/Fierce People/The Brothers Solomon/In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)

Soundtracks
Psycho Killer
Written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz (as Christopher Frantz) and Tina Weymouth
Performed by Talking Heads
Published by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) and Index Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.
By Arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing

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Featured review

5/10

uneven movie, quirky turns dark

It's 1980. 16 year old Finn Earl (Anton Yelchin) wants to escape from his drug addicted "massage therapist" mother Liz (Diane Lane) and their lower east side flat to study the Iskanani Indians or Fierce People with his anthropologist father whom he has never met. Instead, she takes them to the New Jersey country estate of her ex-client billionaire Ogden C. Osbourne (Donald Sutherland) for the summer. There he encounters another kind of Fierce People. He falls for Ogden's granddaughter Maya Langley (Kristen Stewart) and befriends her older brother Bryce (Chris Evans). Their father is in a coma and their mother (Elizabeth Perkins) is bossy. Jilly (Paz de la Huerta) is the exceedingly friendly maid.

Anton Yelchin plays yet another smug kid. This time, he's studying rich people like an anthropologist. It's an overly odd family but the quirkiness never gets to be funny. Then the movie takes a dark turn. The characters and the story always had some dark tones but the turn is especially nasty. The quirky slightly humorous movie breaks down and struggles. The movie is terribly uneven and director Griffin Dunne should have started the movie in a darker place. If he elevates the darker tones early, the movie could stay creepy and disturbed.