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  • 2007
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  • Autonomous Films
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Summary When 16-year-old Finn is caught buying cocaine for his junkie but well intentioned mother Liz, his plans of spending the summer away from NYC with his anthropologist father studying the Ishkanani in the jungle are abruptly changed. In an attempt to get both of their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them out to a cottage on the ...

Directed By: Griffin Dunne

Written By: Dirk Wittenborn

  • 2007
  • R
  • Autonomous Films
  • 2 h 15 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Autonomous Films
  • 2 h 15 m

Fierce People

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
54
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary When 16-year-old Finn is caught buying cocaine for his junkie but well intentioned mother Liz, his plans of spending the summer away from NYC with his anthropologist father studying the Ishkanani in the jungle are abruptly changed. In an attempt to get both of their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them out to a cottage on the ...

Directed By: Griffin Dunne

Written By: Dirk Wittenborn

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
54
33% Positive
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60% Mixed
9 Reviews
7% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
54
33% Positive
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60% Mixed
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7% Negative
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75
Director Griffin Dunne's adaptation of Dirk Wittenborn's fiercely personal novel ambles pleasantly through coming-of-age movie territory, then takes a jarring Agatha Christie detour.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
70
Whereas most of the injustices suffered by "Nanny's" nanny are of the skin-deep variety, the hopelessly reductive Fierce People ups the ante.
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60
When F. Scott Fitzgerald remarked that the rich “are different from you and me,” he might have been thinking of someone like the moody billionaire from Fierce People.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
The platitudes in this gratuitously sentimental movie are taken a lot more seriously than the people.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
50
Fierce People is no ordinary dud. This seedy soap opera is the most outlandish, campy romp through the mud since "Showgirls."
By Bill White FULL REVIEW
50
What might have read as a dense allegory comparing the rituals of the super-rich with the tribal customs of the violent Ishkanani tribe in the Amazon becomes a tedious, over-ripe soap opera on screen.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
25
Plays like a movie that some teenage boy cooked up in his chemistry lab. There are lots of potent things floating around in it - sexual initiation, drugs, fantasy-land wealth, brute violence, primitive rituals, Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland - but the mix just sits there without producing any notable reactions.
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.1
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3 Ratings
29% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.1
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29% Mixed
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29% Negative
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Production Company Industry Entertainment, Lions Gate Entertainment, Lionsgate Films, Milestone Entertainment
Release Date Sep 7, 2007
Duration 2 h 15 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Every family tree has its nuts.
Website https://www.vidio.com/premier/941/fierce-people
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