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Grizzly Man

  • 20052005
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  • 1h 43m
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7.8/10
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Grizzly Man (2005)
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A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.

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  • Director
    • Werner Herzog
  • Writer
    • Werner Herzog
  • Stars
    • Timothy Treadwell(archive footage)
    • Amie Huguenard(archive footage)
    • Werner Herzog(voice)
Top credits
  • Director
    • Werner Herzog
  • Writer
    • Werner Herzog
  • Stars
    • Timothy Treadwell(archive footage)
    • Amie Huguenard(archive footage)
    • Werner Herzog(voice)
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 429User reviews
    • 203Critic reviews
    • 87Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 21 wins & 17 nominations

    Videos6

    Grizzly Man
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    Featurette 3:31
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    What to Watch Right Now on IMDb TV
    Full Episode 3:36
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    Photos23

    Timothy Treadwell in Grizzly Man (2005)
    Werner Herzog in Grizzly Man (2005)
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    Werner Herzog and Jewel Palovak at an event for Grizzly Man (2005)

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    Timothy Treadwell
    Timothy Treadwell
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Amie Huguenard
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Werner Herzog
    Werner Herzog
    • Selfas Self
    • (voice)
    • …
    Carol Dexter
    • Self - Treadwell's Motheras Self - Treadwell's Mother
    Val Dexter
    • Self - Treadwell's Fatheras Self - Treadwell's Father
    Sam Egli
    • Self - Egli Air Haulas Self - Egli Air Haul
    Franc G. Fallico
    • Self - Coroneras Self - Coroner
    Willy Fulton
    • Self - Pilotas Self - Pilot
    Marc Gaede
    • Self - Ecologistas Self - Ecologist
    Marnie Gaede
    • Self - Ecologistas Self - Ecologist
    Sven Haakanson Jr.
    • Self - Alutiiq Museum Directoras Self - Alutiiq Museum Director
    David Letterman
    David Letterman
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Jewel Palovak
    Jewel Palovak
    • Selfas Self
    Kathleen Parker
    • Self - Close Friendas Self - Close Friend
    Warren Queeney
    Warren Queeney
    • Self - Actor and Close Friendas Self - Actor and Close Friend
    Larry Van Daele
    • Self - Bear Biologistas Self - Bear Biologist
    • Director
      • Werner Herzog
    • Writer
      • Werner Herzog
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    Storyline

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    A docudrama that centers on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell. He periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. He was killed, along with his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, by a rogue bear in October 2003. The films explores Treadwell's compassionate life as he found solace among these endangered animals. —Sujit R. Varma
    • man eaten by a bear
    • documentary filmmaker
    • animal attack
    • obsession
    • nature
    • 138 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • In nature, there are boundaries.
    • Genres
      • Documentary
      • Biography
    • Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
      • Rated R for language
    • Parents guide

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    • Trivia
      During a BBC interview about the film, Werner Herzog was shot with an air rifle. The interview was resumed indoors and at the end Herzog was encouraged to check his wound. Though there was "a bruise the size of a snooker ball, with a hole in it." Herzog declared "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."
    • Goofs
      Werner Herzog describes Timothy Treadwell's last tape, while telling his friend never to listen to it, as always being "a White Elephant in the room". "White Elephant" is a different figure of speech from "Elephant in the room". "White Elephant" means an extravagant but useless project; "Elephant in the room" means something unspoken that is nevertheless obvious. That's not rocket surgery. Unless, of course, it was a play on words.
    • Quotes

      Werner Herzog: And what haunts me, is that in all the faces of all the bears that Treadwell ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food. But for Timothy Treadwell, this bear was a friend, a savior.

    • Alternate versions
      The DVD from Lions Gate Home Entertainment opens with a disclaimer stating that the film has been changed from its theatrical version. The sole change is in the first ten minutes where Herzog explains that Treadwell had become a semi-celebrity. In the theatrical version a clip is shown of Treadwell on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman." Treadwell comes out and explains what he has been doing and Letterman quips, "We're not going to open a newspaper one day and read about you being eaten by a bear are we?" In the DVD version this exchange is omitted and replaced with a NBC news segment of Treadwell being interviewed. When the interviewer asks if he would ever want a gun to protect himself, Treadwell states that he "would never, ever kill a bear even in the defense of my own life."
    • Connections
      Edited into Diminishing Returns: Crank (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      Coyotes
      by McDill (as Bob McDill)

      Performed by Don Edwards

      Courtesy of Universal-Polygram Int. Publ., Inc.

      On behalf of itself and Ranger Bob Music (ASCAP), Warner Bros. Records, Inc. by arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing

    User reviews429

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    A Perfect Match
    Anyone who has followed the trajectory of Werner Herzog from the time of "Even Dwarfs Started Small" will understand the immediate appeal that the Treadwell story must have had for this intensely brilliant German director. Treadwell must have seemed to Herzog like a Laguna Beach version of his Fitzcarraldo and his Aguirre and even of Herzog himself in his more unhinged moments. This film appears at first to be a fair minded documentary about Tim Treadwell, the 'protector' of all things natural and wild in the remote regions of Alaska. What Herzog shows us, however, is that what Treadwell really needed protection from was reality itself and that his escape into the wilds was just a deadly game of denial.

    The film is also a meditation on the brute force of nature, on art and on human hubris. My wife found the 'character' of Tim Treadwell so ludicrous and offensive that she had to leave the theater. For my part, I was in awe of both Treadwell's incredible physical courage coupled with his absolute lack of judgment and his insane narcissism. He struck me as a cross between Pee-Wee Herman and Marlon Perkins, the guy who narrated the Mutual of Omaha nature documentaries that showed up on Sunday afternoons in the 60's and 70's.

    The word is that Hollywood, in the person of Leonardo DiCaprio, was a financial supporter of Treadwell's 'mission'in Alaska and that a Hollywood version of the story is due out sometime soon with Di Caprio playing the lead. I know I won't be going to see that version because it will just continue the lie and the myth that Treadwell tried so hard to create and sustain. Even at his most intense moments of profoundity Treadwell had nothing to 'say' to anyone about either bears or himself. It was all self-serving and self-congratulatory and it is only in his grotesque death at the hands of a rogue grizzly that any meaningful message finally comes across. (Herzog thankfully spares us from the actual experience which was caught on audio but not on video because the lens cap had been left on.)

    Its hard not to feel sorry for Tim Treadwell and the young woman who died with him, but the 'native' scientist in the film put it quite nicely "My people have been living nicely with bears for thousands of years and we know enough to stay out of each other's way."

    Tim Treadwell wanted desperately to cross the boundary into the 'way' of the bear because the 'way of the human' was too much for him. Despite his goofy, childish demeanor he revealed himself to be a man of deep anger and resentment. However, if the bears had let him live he would probably be considered something of a folk-hero in 'reality' obsessed America.

    Herzog shows us that there was nothing real about Treadwell at all and that the bears knew a lot more about him than he ever would of them.
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    FAQ3

    • Why didn't Herzog air the tape?
    • David Letterman is credited on IMDb but I didn't see him in the film, where was he?
    • Has the audio of the attacks been publicly released?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 30, 2005 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official Site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 灰熊人
    • Filming locations
      • Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA
    • Production companies
      • Lions Gate Films
      • Discovery Docs
      • Real Big Production
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $3,178,403
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $269,131
      • Aug 14, 2005
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,064,179
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 43 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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