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Fierce People

  • 2005
  • R
  • 1h 47m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
7.2K
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Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Perkins, Paz de la Huerta, Chris Evans, Christopher Shyer, Kristen Stewart, Anton Yelchin, and Jeff Westmoreland in Fierce People (2005)
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  • Director
    • Griffin Dunne
  • Writer
    • Dirk Wittenborn
  • Stars
    • Diane Lane
    • Donald Sutherland
    • Anton Yelchin
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    7.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Griffin Dunne
    • Writer
      • Dirk Wittenborn
    • Stars
      • Diane Lane
      • Donald Sutherland
      • Anton Yelchin
    • 31User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
    • 54Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
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    Donald Sutherland and Anton Yelchin in Fierce People (2005)
    Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, and Robert Clarke in Fierce People (2005)
    Kristen Stewart and Anton Yelchin in Fierce People (2005)
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    Diane Lane
    Diane Lane
    • Liz Earl
    Donald Sutherland
    Donald Sutherland
    • Ogden C. Osborne
    Anton Yelchin
    Anton Yelchin
    • Finn Earl
    Chris Evans
    Chris Evans
    • Bryce
    Kristen Stewart
    Kristen Stewart
    • Maya
    Paz de la Huerta
    Paz de la Huerta
    • Jilly
    Blu Mankuma
    Blu Mankuma
    • Gates
    Elizabeth Perkins
    Elizabeth Perkins
    • Mrs. Langley
    Christopher Shyer
    Christopher Shyer
    • Dr. Leffler
    Garry Chalk
    Garry Chalk
    • McCallum
    Ryan McDonald
    Ryan McDonald
    • Ian
    Dexter Bell
    Dexter Bell
    • Marcus Gates
    Kaleigh Dey
    Kaleigh Dey
    • Paige
    Aaron Brooks
    Aaron Brooks
    • Giacomo
    Jeff Westmoreland
    • Whitney
    Teach Grant
    Teach Grant
    • Dwayne
    Chris Shields
    Chris Shields
    • Cop
    Dirk Wittenborn
    Dirk Wittenborn
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    • Director
      • Griffin Dunne
    • Writer
      • Dirk Wittenborn
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Eddie Rosales who played the shaman in the movie's dream sequence was actually speaking in Filipino.
    • Goofs
      When the police car takes them away from their apartment it has a stop light out, but when it is arriving at the country house the light is fixed.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Finn Earl: We are the sum of all of the people that we have ever met. You change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Shoot 'Em Up/Eastern Promises/Fierce People/The Brothers Solomon/In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Psycho Killer
      Written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz (as Christopher Frantz) and Tina Weymouth

      Performed by Talking Heads

      Published by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) and Index Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

      Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.

      By Arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing

    User reviews31

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    6/10
    What the hell just happened?
    I literally have no idea how to rate this movie. It comes in two halves, and I quite liked both of them, but the two halves belong to completely different films. Have you ever been driving down a quiet country road near your house, taken a left turn and suddenly found yourself in Helmand Province, Afghanistan? That's what this movie is like - there's a tonal shift around the halfway mark that's so jarring, so out of place with what's gone before, that it left me utterly dumbfounded, staring at the screen, saying over and over 'That didn't really happen, did it?'

    If I've got trouble with it, I can only take pity on the people who had to market this movie. It's a pretty light comedy for the first half - all wacky families, odd-but-cute kid taking his first steps towards manhood, that sort of thing, and it's all very well done. And at the centre of it all is Donald Sutherland, never better in the role of a patriarch who has made scads of money, but lost out in many other ways. It's light and frothy and amusing and - then. Then the event happens, and everything turns VERY dark indeed. The second half plays more like a socially conscious melodrama, with teenage pregnancy, class division and... other issues. It's good too, for what it is, but that seismic shift in the middle of the film makes it all pretty hard to stomach.

    So do I recommend this movie or not? Hell, I don't know. Both its parts are very good, but they add up to a baffling whole. I realize that that isn't necessarily very helpful, but you probably ought to be warned that this has been marketed as a comedy, and an enjoyable coming of age movie. That's true, but only up until the halfway mark...
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    • mattbaxter72
    • Jan 27, 2010

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 30, 2007 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Canada
    • Official site
      • Vidio (Indonesia)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Tagalog
    • Also known as
      • Gente poco corriente
    • Filming locations
      • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Industry Entertainment
      • Lions Gate Entertainment
      • Lions Gate Films
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $85,410
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $19,968
      • Sep 9, 2007
    • Gross worldwide
      • $269,755
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 47 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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