Cast overview: | |||
Bridget Moynahan | ... | Amy Newman | |
Peter Weller | ... | Tom Newman | |
Carly Schroeder | ... | Jessica Newman | |
Jamie Bartlett | ... | Crawford | |
Connor Dowds | ... | David Newman | |
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Marius Roberts | ... | Brian |
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Muso Sefatsa | ... | Nephew |
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Jacob Makgoba | ... | Local Hunter |
Ashley Taylor | ... | Rescue Chopper Ranger | |
Tumisho Masha | ... | Mike - Ranger at Airstrip (as Tumisho K. Masha) | |
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Mary-Anne Barlow | ... | Ranger in Radio Room |
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Thijs Ocenasek | ... | King Air Pilot 1 |
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Louis Heering | ... | King Air Pilot 2 |
While working in a dam in Africa, the American hydraulic engineer Tom Newman brings his family to spend a couple of days in the Leopard's Rest Lodge. His fourteen year-old daughter Jessica is having friction with her stepmother Amy since she does not accept the divorce of her parents. On the next morning, Amy, Jessica and her brother David go in a game drive with a ranger while Tom goes to the dam. While driving off-road, David asks the ranger to stop the jeep to go to the "toilet", and unexpectedly they are attacked by a group of starving lions that kill and eat the ranger. Amy, Jessica and David are trapped in the jeep and stalked by the wild lions. When Tom returns to the hotel and finds that his family has not returned from the game, he asks for help to the experienced hunter and guide Crawford and together they seek Tom's family. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prey should be retitled The Stupid Family Goes to Africa. If one took this film seriously, which would be a mistake, one could say that this dysfunctional family was responsible for the deaths of several persons who would have been just fine if this family hadn't come to the Dark Continent to make it even darker. Knowing nothing about the private lives of lions, I can guess that the plot was probably highly inaccurate as I cannot imagine why a pride of lions would set their sights on these silly people when there are lots of zebra and wildebeest running around. As I sat open-mouthed(with awe at the lousy direction) waiting for the ending, I felt certain that a film this bad would have to end with one of the most offensive of movie clichés and indeed it did when Peter Weller said, "Let's go Home." This is what I would have said at the beginning of the movie if I had seen it in a theater.