DVD
REVIEW: FIERCE PEOPLE
02/02/08
Starring Academy Award®
nominee Diane Lane (Unfaithful), Emmy® and Golden Globe®
winner Donald Sutherland (HBO’s “Citizen X”) and Emmy®
nominated Elizabeth Perkins (Showtime’s “Weeds”), Fierce
People is an unflinching drama that exposes the trappings of
wealth and privilege and the overwhelming power to both
seduce and corrupt. Directed by Academy Award® nominee
Griffin Dunne (Duke of Groove) and written by Dirk
Wittenborn, adapted from his novel of the same name, the
film received accolades from critics including The Film
Journal International (“Sutherland gives his strongest
performance in years”) and Boston Now (“Fierce People
features some of the finest performances of this, or any
other, year”). The DVD includes deleted scenes, audio
commentary with the director and a “behind-the-scenes”
featurette.
A coming-of-age story about the perils of privilege, Fierce
People examines the deceit and betrayal that erupts when a
working-class mother and her son move to a wealthy “country
club” suburb where social climbing is a blood sport. Trapped
in his mother’s Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old
Finn (AntonYelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New
York and spend the summer in South America studying the
Iskanani Indians, or “Fierce People,” with the
anthropologist father he’s never met. However, Finn’s dreams
are Fierce People when he is arrested in a desperate effort to
help his drug-dependent mother, Liz (Lane), who scrapes by
working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on
track, Liz moves the two of them into a guesthouse on the
vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic
billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne (Sutherland). In Osbourne’s
close world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter a
tribe fiercer and more mysterious than anything they might
find in the South American jungle: the super rich.
VIDEO:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) Enhance for 16x9 TVs
AUDIO:
English 5.1 Dolby Digital
Subtitles - English, Spanish,
BONUS FEATURES:
“Breaking Down the Tribe” featurette
Deleted scenes
Audio
commentary with director Griffin Dunne
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