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Fierce People Details

2005 Certificate 15 Certificate 15 (TBC)
  • Rated:
  • 60
  • from 250 members

Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or Fierce People, with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a .. Read more

Starring Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, Kristen Stewart
Director Griffin Dunne
Genres Drama

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Fierce People

Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or Fierce People, with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz (Diane Lane), who scrapes by working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guesthouse on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne (Donald Sutherland).

In Osbourne's close world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter a tribe fiercer and more mysterious than anything they might find in the South American jungle: the super rich. While Liz battles her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son's love and trust, Finn falls in love with Osbourne's beautiful granddaughter, Maya (Kristin Stewart), befriends her charismatic older brother, Bryce (Chris Evans), and even wins the favor of Osbourne himself. But when a shocking act of violence shatters Finn's ascension within the Osbourne clan, the golden promises of this lush world quickly sour. And both Finn and Liz, caught in a harrowing struggle for their dignity, discover that membership always comes at a price...

Starring Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Stewart, Chris Evans, Elizabeth Perkins, Paz de la Huerta, Blu Mankuma, Christopher Shyer, Gary Chalk, Ryan McDonald, Kaleigh Dey, Aaron Brooks, Branden Williams, Teach Grant
Director Griffin Dunne
Studio LIONSGATE
Run time DVD: 1 hr 47 mins
Watch now: 1 hr 48 mins
Certificate DVD: Certificate 15, Watch Online: Certificate 15 (TBC)
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Watch Online: English
Released DVD: 18 Feb 2008
Watch now: 21 Sep 2009
Production year: 2005
Watch now £2.49
Format DVD
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  • 1 stars out of

    Is director Griffin Dunne on acid? I began to wonder three quarters of the way through Fierce People, when the wealthy... read more on Time Out

    • Tom Beer, 
    • Time Out
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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Fierce indeed

    It is clear from early on the direction this film is going to take. However it turns a little darker as it goes on which adds an unexpectedly good edge to what was 'kinda ok'.

    The acting and characters are all excellent and the great Donald Sutherland is, as always, amazing.

    Well worth watching.

      • DavidL from Dunblane
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