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Never Cry Wolf
List price: $19.99
Sale price: $14.99
You save: $5 (25%)
Actor(s): Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Hugh Webster
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Creator(s): Writer Charles Martin SmithProducer Jack CoufferProducer Joseph StrickProducer Lewis M. AllenWriter Christina LuescherWriter Curtis HansonWriter Eugene CorrWriter Farley MowatWriter Ralph FurmaniakWriter Richard KletterWriter Sam Hamm
Director(s):
EAN: 0786936240825
Format(s): ColorDVD-VideoNTSC
Label: Buena Vista Pictures
Language(s): English Original Language
List Price: $19.99
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Pictures
MPN: DISD35370D
Number Of Items: 1
Package Dimensions:
Height: 0.58"
Width: 5.42"
Length: 0.58"
Weight: 0.18 lbs.
Product Group: DVD
Publisher: Buena Vista Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-09-07
Running Time: 105minutes
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1983-10-07
UPC: 786936240825
Editorial Reviews
Description:
Filmed amid spectacular wilderness vistas, NEVER CRY WOLF reveals a world of hypnotic beauty and breathtaking cinematic imagery. An unforgettable adventure begins as Tyler, a young inexperienced biologist, is deposited alone onto the desolate Arctic terrain. Once settled, he struggles to endure the forces of nature as he documents the mysterious habits of the wolves he has been sent to study. An odyssey of self-discovery told through captivating drama, NEVER CRY WOLF is a haunting, lyrical film from the director of THE BLACK STALLION.
Amazon.com:
Carroll Ballard's 1983 adaptation of Farley Mowat's autobiographical novel turns his life-changing experience studying the wolves in Canada's inhospitable North into a moving drama of one man's courage and discovery of nature's majesty. Charles Martin Smith plays green biologist Tyler, sent by the Canadian government to "prove" that the wolves are depleting the caribou herds, but what he finds is a natural world in perfect harmony where he becomes a tolerated outsider. Dumped unprepared in the wilds by a hard drinking bush pilot (Brian Dennehy), Tyler learns survival skills from the aged Eskimo who saves his life and the rules of coexistence from a neighboring wolf (which results in a literal pissing contest as man and beast mark their respective territories). Tyler's journey culminates in the majestic run with the wolf pack, an exhilarating sequence where for an instant he becomes one with natural environment of the wilds. For all its beauty, however, Tyler's experience becomes a bittersweet lesson as the encroachment of hunters, tourism, and the social landscape threaten the natural order. As in his previous film, the delicate and lovely The Black Stallion, Ballard's astounding visual treatment captures the awesome natural beauty of the Canadian wilderness with power and poignancy. Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves explores many of the themes presented in this film, but without the resonance or beauty of Ballard's unsung masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews Average rating - 4.5
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-31
Content: I saw this movie in the theater in 1983 and it instantly became one of my all-time favorites. Now I finally have the plasma TV and Blu-Ray player of my dreams, but no Blu-Ray of Never Cry Wolf! If you haven't seen this film, get it on DVD anyway. You won't be disappointed. It's based on Farley Mowat's controversial and discredited "memoirs", but forget about that and just enjoy the movie. The cinematography will make you want to disappear into the Alaskan back country forever. And there has never been a movie scene that evokes pure loneliness than Tyler sitting in the middle of a frozen lake in the gray half-light trying to find a station on his radio, and discovering that the only one in range is broadcasting from Russia. You can't be more hosed than that.
Summary: A beautiful movie that screams to be on Blu-Ray!
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-29
Content: The first reviewer pretty much said it all. I would like to add that I saw this movie with my mom and is a memory I cherish to this day. It says "Haunting, lyrical" in the reviews on the back. Truer words were never spoken. I truly felt haunted after watching this film and it stayed with me for a long time. Of all the films we've seen fit to release in Blu-ray this should have been the very first. It's a movie about life, real life. Not how we want it to be but how it really is. There are no pat answers, no clear resolutions. In all my years of watching film this one was the most beautiful and most deserving of the hi def treatment. Thank you
Summary: Why not Blu-Ray?
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-07-05
Content: This movie really makes you see the sides of many types of people, it truly hits reality, knowing that this is how people are in real life and not just on the screen. The scenery was wonderful, if for no other reason one should rent it for this reason alone.
An older movie, but a really great movie!
Summary: Wonderful!!!
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-06-11
Content: A great story about someone finding out who they really are.The scenery footage is spectacular,and the storyline is very thoughtful and provoking.The humor thrown in allows the story to be taken seriously but at the same time shows what Tyler had to do to maintain his sanity during his adventure.At first you feel that Tyler has gotten in way over his head,but as the story progresses you find that his naivette in the wilderness is what helps him to survive.
Summary: The Great Outdoors
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-03-23
Content: Most everyone I know who's seen this film joyously remembers one of its scenes: a wonderful sequence in which the half-inspired, half-delirious Farley Mowat (called "Tyler" for purposes of this film) dashes back and forth with a caribou herd as they veer across the greening tundra in a remote Alaskan valley. There are few moments in film more nicely done, more mad and extraordinary and beautiful than that brief run and the simple-but-powerful percussion score playing behind it.
I'll leave to others reviewers to explain for you exactly WHY Mowat does his "Naturalists Gone Wild" take -- and it does make wonderful sense in the context of the unfolding story!
I'll share only this: be ready for one of those small, most-special, slightly startling moments that define fine cinema. As a young, single man in 1983, I chose to take the most beautiful and intelligent woman I knew to see this newly-released movie, chose this above all others, precisely because I knew that the "Caribou run" scene would move her deeply (it did, to my later joy that night). But the important part was that I was moved even more; I remembered the beauty and joy of that dash-with-the-Caribout for two decades, 'til one night I was lucky enough to see it replayed on cable and rediscovered it, just as brilliantly photographed, as magical, and as exhilarating as I'd remembered from first viewing.
SEE this movie, or, rather, indulge yourself in this film nougat -- and it will repay you with sights and emotions well beyond what this much-neglected movie's "ratings" might have led you to expect. Have fun! And, Disney, you have a brilliant-cut gem, here -- get it a new mounting, prepare new DVD's from a new print! -- hell, re-release it! What a fine film you made, and what a silly decision to look right past it for these 25 years since.
Summary: A dance with the Caribou - and a GREAT film!
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