The Clan of the Cave Bear

Name: The Clan of the Cave Bear
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Released: January 17, 1986
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 34
Cast: Adel Hammoud, Curtis Armstrong, Daryl Hannah, James Remar, John Doolittle

1986

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: January 17, 1986 | R

Starring: Adel Hammoud, Curtis Armstrong, Daryl Hannah, James Remar, John Doolittle, Martin Doyle, Mike Muscat, Pamela Reed, Thomas G. Waites, Tony Montanaro

Summary: This film tells the story of one woman's struggle for acceptance amidst a barbaric clan. Daryl Hannah is Ayla in the film version of Jean M. Auel's best seller. No historian recorded their heartaches, triumphs or names. Yet Ayla and others like her left indelible imprints. They continued humankind's long march toward civilization.... andThis film tells the story of one woman's struggle for acceptance amidst a barbaric clan. Daryl Hannah is Ayla in the film version of Jean M. Auel's best seller. No historian recorded their heartaches, triumphs or names. Yet Ayla and others like her left indelible imprints. They continued humankind's long march toward civilization.... and away from more primitive groups like The Clan of the Cave Bear. Separated from her Cro-Magnon people by a calamitous earthquake, Ayla lives with a less-developed, male-dominated Neanderthal clan. She's different in appearance, in resourcefulness, in her uncommon defiance of social taboos. And from those differences arise conflicts that underscore the Cro-Magnons' evolutionary ascendancy and the Neanderthals’ mysterious disappearance from our world. [Warner Bros.]… Expand

Director: Michael Chapman

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Rating: R

Runtime: 98 min

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Jay Boyar

Director Michael Chapman, an experienced cinematographer, is skilled in conveying ideas through pictures -- quite an advantage in a movie about people who aren't especially verbal. And Chapman's cinematographer, Jan De Bont, has a varied palette that responds to the visual demands of a world in transition. Read full review

Janet Maslin

[It] has a gentle approach to its characters and an occasionally striking visual style. What it doesn't have is much momentum or originality. Read full review

Devotees of John Sayles' witty, literate screenplays will be disappointed by the repartee of subtitled grunts, while beneath the film's apparent plea for tolerance lies the offensive (if quite possibly true) assumption that tall, tanned Californian blondes represent the highest form of human life. Read full review

Sheila Benson

After much time with this soggy, quarrelsome clan, your sympathies may lie entirely with the bear. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The filmmakers made no effort to empathize with their prehistoric characters, to imagine what it might have really been like back then. Read full review

Jack Kroll

The Clan of the Cave Bear is dog. [27 Jan 1986, p.69]

Bill Cosford

It's all as foolish as can be, and tedious in the bargain. The Clan of the Cave Bear acts as a parody of the earlier, more accomplished Quest for Fire, but since even that film was funny despite itself, this is not much of an accomplishment. On the evidence, it is hard to tell which way Hannah, who was Ron Howard's mermaid in Splash, is traveling on the old evolutionary ladder. [27 Man 1986, p.C6]

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SameirAli

Dec 12, 2021

A prehistoric movie directed by the acclaimed cinematographer Michael Chapman. The story is about Ayla who belongs to a different clan and joins a group of save-dwellers since her childhood. She turns out to be probably the first feminist. The film goes like a documentary with not muchA prehistoric movie directed by the acclaimed cinematographer Michael Chapman. The story is about Ayla who belongs to a different clan and joins a group of save-dwellers since her childhood. She turns out to be probably the first feminist. The film goes like a documentary with not much interesting factors. Daryl Hannah can be said as the attraction of the movie.… Expand

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