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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 26781
Released: February 15, 2000 |
| Our Price: $30.71 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The true story of a 1930s frontier trapper who adopted the ways of the wild and found love among its people. After discovering that the woods of the great north were being threatened with extinction his passion leads him on a crusade to fight for the land hes come to love. Subtitles in english and spanish. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/22/2008 Starring: Pierce Brosnan Annie Galipeau Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Richard Attenborough
Description of Grey Owl:
Richard Attenborough's passion weighs so heavily on every frame of Grey Owl, the true story of a pioneering conservationist in the Canadian wilderness, that it tends to smother the characters. Pierce Brosnan is stiff, deliberate and terse as Archie Grey Owl, a part Scotch Native American adopted and raised by a Canadian Ojibwa tribe. He gets by as a trapper, hunting guide, and sometime writer, but becomes an internationally revered activist in the 1930s when he publishes a book on the vanishing wilderness. Annie Galipeau is the native Canadian woman who sees through his tough hide and secretive quiet: "Yeah, I know. You're a loner. You have to live in the wilderness. I hear it everyday." But she doesn't pierce his most zealously guarded secret, a distracting subplot that most of the audience figures out in no time. Attenborough's hushed reverence for Archie's dream slows an already lugubrious drama, and Brosnan all too often comes off as a walking cliché, his flat speech and long, slow stares a Brit's idea of a movie Indian. The real star of the film is the magnificent Canadian wilderness: carpets of forests, clear crystal lakes, and vast blue skies. There's no doubting Attenborough's good intentions, and his love for the wilderness is felt in every gorgeous frame, but somewhere in the forest he loses track of his story. --Sean Axmaker
Grey Owl Reviews:
Grey Owl the Environmentalist 
2009-11-22 - It took a little while for me to accept Pierce Brosnan as an Indian. But a little into the movie I accepted it. The price of the movie is worth the scenery that is in it. I will watch it again just for that reason.
It is based on a true story and you can truly see the impact that Grey Owl had in protecting the enviroment.He went from trapping to public speaking trying to save the forest and the animals. It is a top notch movie in my opinion and worth the price you pay for it.
What a SHAME on so-called CIVILIZATION
2009-03-14 - It is, indeed, shameful that the production of this most important motion picture, directed by Richard Attenborough and wonderfully produced in every way, apparently is being discontinued due to a lack of public interest. The almost astonishing lack of concern and awareness of the life essential connections between ALL humans and things that mostly are labelled as environmental and/or ecological, appears to foretell a premature extinction of the increasingly "brain dead" human species. For anyone with an open mind and intelligent concern for the present, highly confused and disordered state of contemporary human civilization, whose DVD film library does not ALREADY contain this most excellent and essential film, I would suggest acting ASAP to acquire one of the apparently last remaining, available copies.
Sweet & Fine
2007-06-14 - If you just take the movie on its own terms, its own of the sweetest, finest movies you will find. You don't need to be an environmentalist or a native americanist to appreciate this wonderful movie. Just being human will do.
Grey Owl movie review 
2006-11-06 - Seems to me that this movie does a creditable job with a difficult subject: Grey Owl (aka Archie Belaney).
That Attenborough undertook the telling is a tribute to him.
Annie Gallipeau is too beautiful to describe and is a perfect fit for the Mohawk woman Annahareo.
Perhaps the movie is a little glossy: for instance, it doesn't mention Archie Belaney's four other wives. An untidy fact. Nor do I recall seeing anything about his excessive drinking.
Keep An Open Mind
2006-03-12 - I must admit that when I first saw this DVD jacket at a video store I scoffed at it. Pierce Brosnan play an Native American? Yeah, right. Last night I was just about to go to bed and this movie came on. I said to myself, I've got to see this. As I watched I became intrigued by the subtle hint that something was amiss about the Grey Owl character. It was very late at night, but I was not sleepy because this movie is incredible.
This is a moving story based on the actual life of Archibald Stansfeld Belaney. It is very well acted, written and directed. If you know nothing about the life of Archie Grey Owl, you will be amazed. There are some scenes in this movie that are very touching and powerful. For example, when Pony falls through the ice and Grey Owl rescues her. Also, when Grey Owl tells Pony his secret, her reaction is heart warming and powerful. To reveal too much about the story line is to spoil the film for someone unfamiliar with the life of a very interesting man.
I watch a lot of movies and this one is really very good; and certainly worth the $8.99 asking price, in my opinion. As for the DVD, I do not have it. Based on the other reviews, there are 2 10 minute inteviews with the real Grey Owl; and to me, this is enough to purchase the DVD.
