Grey Owl Movie Review 1999

Interesting old-fashioned biopic suffers from miscasting (and it's not Brosnan, although he takes a little getting used to). Based on the true story of Archie Grey Owl (Brosnan), an Ojibway trapper in 1930s Canada who changes his occupation and becomes an ardent early environmentalist and celebrity lecturer and writer. Only after his death does the truth come out--Archie was in fact Englishman Archibald Belaney. Film bogs down in its romantic aspects with Galipeau, as Grey Owl's young Mohawk girlfriend, sadly out of her depths.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 117 minutes.
Originally from British, Canadian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Canada, Not-So-True Identity, Flashback, True Stories, This Is Your Life

Screenplay

William Nicholson

Cast

Pierce Brosnan, Annie Galipeau, Vlasta Vrana, Nathaniel Arcand, David Fox, Charles Powell, Renee Asherson, Stephenie Cole, Graham Greene

Cinematography

Roger Pratt

Director

Richard Attenborough

Music

George Fenton

Producer

Richard Attenborough, Jake Eberts, Claude Leger, Barr Potter, Largo Ent.

Awards

Genie 1999: Costume Des.