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 |
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| Director | Griffin Dunne |
| Genres | Drama |
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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 |
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| Director | Griffin Dunne |
| Studio | LIONSGATE |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 47 mins Watch now: 1 hr 48 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: |
| 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 |
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
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.