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5.3/10   92 votes
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Director:
David S. Cass Sr.
Writer (WGA):
Paul W. Cooper (written by)
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Release Date:
15 April 2002 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Drama
Tagline:
Alone on a mountaintop they share the most powerful instinct of all. Survival. more
Plot:
A woman finds herself trapped in the woods with the one animal she fears most--the wolf. As an alliance with the wolf grows, so does her will to survive. full summary | add synopsis
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poor .... more (2 total)

Cast

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Anne Archer ... Claire McNichol

Robert Urich ... Purly Owens

Zachary Bostrom ... Jesse McNichol

C. Thomas Howell ... Sheriff Wade Messer
Sally Kirkland ... Rose Handy

Stephen Bridgewater ... Wayne Handy

Michael Shamus Wiles ... Crawford

Peter Dobson ... Rucker

James Lashly ... Vernon Bartlett

Michele Nordin ... Missy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Norman Alden ... Carl Casey
David Atkinson ... Mechanic
Monty Stuart ... Game Warden
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Eye of the Wolf (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
120 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
California, USA more
Company:
Animal Planet more

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Trivia:
Robert Urich's last film; it aired on Animal Planet the same day that he died. more

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13 out of 20 people found the following comment useful.
poor ...., 20 January 2003
Author: markymarky from ireland

This came on the Hallmark channel the other night (not a good sign to begin with) but as there was nothing else on I decided to give it a go.

Alas - my fears were correct - this was very poor fare indeed. The presence of Anne Archer, Robert Urich and C. Thomas Howell gave me a brief inkling that this movie might rise above the usual TV dirge and actually display some sort of ingenuity when it came to creating a piece of art. But no - I was wrong.

The story is basically an interwine of bad-ass poachers killing game-wardens and animals in the hills and one woman's relationship with a trapped wolf. Archer's character hates wolves because of what happened to her dead husband years earlier but when she gets thrown from her horse and lays with a broken ankle for 5 days with nobody for company but a snared wolf - she begins to respect the animal. She realises that they are not much different from herself.

Utter tosh really but Archer's character is almost unplayable as her lines and situations are atrocious. The late Robert Urich fares a little better with his deliveries and Howell is wasted in a periphery character appearence.

Several times I wanted to get up and switch the thing off but I stuck it out to the very predictable end. Not exactly a complete waste of 2 hours of my life but not far from it.

4/10

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