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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 2 EAN: 9780790742762 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790742764 Item Dimensions: Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: D13753D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 23, 1999 Running Time: 98 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 17, 1986 Editorial Review: Product Description: Daryl Hannah and Pamela Reed star in this richly detailed beautifully shot saga of the rise of a more advanced clan of people. John Sayles wrote this adaptation of Jean M. Auel's worldwide bestseller. Starring: Daryl Hannah Pamela Reed Year: 1986 Sound: ENG; Subtitles: ENG FR Screen Format: Side A: Widescreen; Side B: StandardRunning Time: 98 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 085391375326 Amazon.com: Every statuesque, beautiful blonde woman has spent more time in the company of Neanderthals than she cares to remember. Seems it's always been that way: Clan of the Cave Bear, a 1986 feature scripted by John Sayles and based on Jean Auel's bestselling novel set in prehistoric times, stars former mermaid Daryl Hannah as an intelligent Cro-Magnon woman adopted and raised by lesser-evolved Neanderthals. Berated for her brains, sexually exploited, and generally treated as uppity chattel, Hannah's character sets out for the far country to see who else is there. Eventually, she finds more Baywatch-like gods and goddesses similar to herself, including an Aryan-looking stud with whom she discovers how good sex can feel with a warm, caring, proto-human. Sayles's writing on this project is forceful but cheeky. It's hard not to laugh at a number of scenes that shouldn't, in the strictest sense, be laughed at (the use of subtitles to decipher caveman grunts and clucks may or may not be an intentional running joke), but one gets the feeling Sayles looked upon this challenge as a pop exercise instead of (as many of the book's fans would have preferred) a religious experience. Michael Chapman, ace cinematographer of Mean Streets and The Wanderers, directed with an eye toward primitive exotica and made this a terrific-looking movie. Author Auel was reportedly unhappy with the final results on screen, but the film is well worth a fascinated look. With Pamela Reed and James Remar. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Big plusses, Bigger minusesThe cover art is great and Daryl Hannah can't help but be beautiful. The music is full of portent as it highlights the arrival of a superior being. Unfortunately, the movie is difficult to watch: enough to make one throw one's hands up in dismay with the realization it isn't going to get any better. Where is the acting? Not the high school kind, how about some real acting? How about some material or direction for the actors to work with? Buy the soundtrack CD if you like, but don't waste your ... Read More Rating:  - pleasantly suprisedMy dad asked me to order this movie for him. I had never heard of it, but I watched it when I received it in the mail. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I really enjoyed the movie. The characters consist of neanderthals and cro-magnons (prehistoric people) so you might think they run around grunting and throwing rocks or something. That's not what you get with this movie. The dialogue consists of simple sounds and hand gestures (you have to watch the movie with subtitles, there's ... Read More Rating: - What did you expect...a four hour epic?!?Read the book in back in the 1980's...just so there's no confusion. Okay, now to the movie. First of all, at 98 minutes, this movie was just WAY too short! I'd really love to know what ended up on the cutting room floor, and whether any of that footage could have helped flesh out what's otherwise a pretty decent movie anyways. Remember that this movie came out just a few years after the release of The Quest for Fire. Before that, there was what...One ... Read More Rating:  - Makes you were born in the centery you were!Clan of the Cave Bear tells the story of a pre-historic child that looses her tribe and was found by a male dominating tribe (Cave Bear tribe). Ala being of a different race was thought to be a bad omen so she was descriminated by most of the tribe. The leader's son hates her the most and tries his hardest to make her life miserible. He rapes her repetedly (they are fully clothed) so it's not supprising that she eventually became pregnant. In this tribe it is punishable by death for a woman to touch a weapon ... Read More Rating:  - I read the book firstI have no quarrel with the acting or filming which is very good. The major problem here is with content. 1) The Neanderthal weren't cross fertile with modern humans ( cro-magnon men). 2) In fact from bones found in Neanderthal camp fires, they ate humans. 3) The sling, like the bow and arrow, were later in the stone age; spear throwers were the height of technology closer to this era. I think that a more authentic representation of Neanderthals might be in order. Apparently ... Read More |
