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Grey Owl
Directed byRichard Attenborough
Written byWilliam Nicholson
Produced byRichard Attenborough
Jake Eberts
Claude Léger
StarringPierce Brosnan
CinematographyRoger Pratt
Edited byLesley Walker
Music byGeorge Fenton
Production
companies
Distributed byNew City Releasing (USA)
20th Century Fox (UK)
Release dates
  • 10 September 1999 (1999-09-10) (US)

February 15, 2000 (VHS & DVD release)
Running time
117 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Canada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million
Box office$632,617[1]

Grey Owl is a 1999 biopic directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Pierce Brosnan in the role of real life British schoolboy turned Indian trapper "Grey Owl," Archibald Belaney (1888–1938), and Annie Galipeau as his wife Anahareo, with brief appearances by Graham Greene and others. The screenplay was written by William Nicholson. This film is released September 10, 1999.

Plot

Archibald Belaney (Brosnan) was a British man who grew up fascinated with Native American culture—so much so that in the early 1900s he left the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for Canada, where he reinvented himself as Archie Grey Owl and lived in the wild as a North American Indian trapper. Eventually, Belaney becomes an environmentalist after renouncing trapping and hunting.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in the English town of Hastings, Quebec towns Chelsea and Wakefield, Jacques Cartier Park and Saskatchewan's Prince Albert National Park.

Director Richard Attenborough said in an interview that he and his brother, noted presenter and naturalist David Attenborough, had attended "Grey Owl's" De Montfort Hall, Leicester lecture in 1936, depicted in the film, and being influenced by his advocacy of conservation.[2]

Reception

The film met with average to negative reviews, and has a 'rotten' 18% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.[3] William Gallagher of the BBC said, "if you like cuddly animals or you fancy Pierce Brosnan, you're in luck".[4]

The film won one Genie Award at the 20th Genie Awards, in the category of Best Costume Design for Renée April.

References

  1. ^ "Grey Owl". Box Office Mojo.
  2. ^ Country Life: Volume 194, 2000
  3. ^ "Grey Owl". Rotten Tomatoes.
  4. ^ BBC - Films - review - Grey Owl


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