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10,000 BC (2008) -- A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

Overview

User Rating:
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Director:

Roland Emmerich

Writers (WGA):

Roland Emmerich (written by) &
Harald Kloser (written by)

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Release Date:

7 March 2008 (USA) more

Tagline:

It takes a hero to change the world. more

Plot:

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. full summary | add synopsis

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(3 articles)

Belle Fronts African Jewellery Campaign For Charity
 (From WENN. 12 March 2009, 12:20 PM, PDT)

Jonas Denies Cheating On Swift
 (From WENN. 14 November 2008, 4:09 AM, PST)

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OK, just OK more (502 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Steven Strait ... D'Leh

Camilla Belle ... Evolet

Cliff Curtis ... Tic'Tic

Joel Virgel ... Nakudu

Affif Ben Badra ... Warlord (as Ben Badra)

Mo Zinal ... Ka'Ren (as Mo Zainal)
Nathanael Baring ... Baku
Mona Hammond ... Old Mother

Marco Khan ... One-Eye

Reece Ritchie ... Moha
Joel Fry ... Lu'kibu

Omar Sharif ... Narrator
Kristian Beazley ... D'Leh's Father
Junior Oliphant ... Tudu
Louise Tu'u ... Baku's Mother
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Additional Details

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence.

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Filming Locations:

Namibia more


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Trivia:

D'Leh is spelled "Held" backwards, "Held" being the German word for "hero". Roland Emmerich chose this name as an easteregg. more

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The lake in the background during the final scene is completely stationary, despite the prominent appearance of waves which, by their nature, cannot be still. more

Quotes:

Tic'Tic: Be as your father. more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: (#7.8)" (2008) more


FAQ

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31 out of 47 people found the following comment useful.
OK, just OK, 17 June 2008
5/10
Author: danny-418 from Iceland

To anyone who has ever yearned to see woolly mammoths in full stampede across the Alps, 10,000 BC can be heartily recommended. There's also a flock of "terror birds"--lethal ostriches on steroids--in a steaming jungle only a splice away from the heroes' snow-dusted alpine habitat. And lo, somewhere in the vastness of the North African desert lies a city whose slave inhabitants alternately teem like the crowds in Quo Vadis during the burning of Rome and trudge in hieratic ally menacing formations like the workers in Metropolis. That's pretty much it for the cool stuff. Setting movies in prehistoric times is dicey. Apart from the "Dawn of Man" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, only Quest for Fire makes the grade, and its creators had the good sense to limit the duologue to grunts and moans. 10,000 BC boasts a quasi-biblical narrator (Omar Sharif) and characters who speak in formed, albeit uninteresting, sentences--including a New Age–y "I understand your pain." But let no one say the storytelling isn't primitive. The narrator speaks of "the legend of the child with the blue eyes" and bingo, here's the kid now. When, grown up to be Camilla Belle, she's carried off by "four-legged demons"--guys on horseback to you--the neighbor boy (Steven Strait) who hankers to make myth with her leads a rescue mission into the great unknown world beyond their mountaintop. His name is D'Leh, which is Held, the German for "knight," spelled backward. So yes, there is some hidden meaning after all. 10,000 BC is the latest triumph of the ersatz from writer-director Roland Emmerich. Like Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004) before it, it's shamelessly cobbled together out of every movie Emmerich can remember to pilfer from (though to be fair, the section in per-ancient Egypt harks back to his own Stargate). Emmerich's saving grace is that his films' cheesiness is so flagrant, his narratives so geared for instant gratification, he can seem like a kid simultaneously improvising and acting out a story in his backyard: "P'tend there's this alien ... p'tend maybe he came from Atlantis or something...." Just don't p'tend it has anything to do with real movie-making.

Starring: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Cirtus, Joel Virgel. Director: Roland Emmerich.

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