True Wolf

Name: True Wolf
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 13, 2012
Rating: 43

2012

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Shadow Distribution | Release Date: August 13, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: rue Wolf is the story of a wolf called Koani. Koani, with the help of her human companions, became an ambassador for her species, traveling the country to help raise awareness about wolves. True Wolf is about Koani’s life and journey; it is the tale of a wolf and the way she changed lives, most of all those of Pat Tucker and Bruce Weide.rue Wolf is the story of a wolf called Koani. Koani, with the help of her human companions, became an ambassador for her species, traveling the country to help raise awareness about wolves. True Wolf is about Koani’s life and journey; it is the tale of a wolf and the way she changed lives, most of all those of Pat Tucker and Bruce Weide. Koani and her humans, Pat and Bruce, presented 1,400 programs about wolves to 200,000 people. (Shadow Distribution)… Expand

Director: Rob Whitehair

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

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John DeFore

Aug 15, 2012

The topic's appeal is broad, but Whitehair's tight focus on one activist family keeps this film from being the one to reach an audience beyond those already involved in the issue. Read full review

Joseph Jon Lanthier

Aug 13, 2012

The documentary veers between repetitive and didactic pronouncements of a call to inaction and more affectionately told stories about Koani's life as an "ambassador wolf" on the elementary school circuit. Read full review

Farran Smith Nehme

Aug 17, 2012

It's hard to get close to a wild creature, and True Wolf doesn't always manage, either. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Aug 16, 2012

Having devoted much of their lives to combating lupine myths by introducing Koani to wonder-struck schoolchildren, Mr. Weide and Ms. Tucker are ill served by a director who reduces the anti-wolf lobby to caricature and the debates over reintroducing wolves to the Northern Rockies to grossly biased clips. Read full review

Jonathan Kiefer

Aug 14, 2012

Spongy with equanimity and stronger on introspection than exposition, the movie amounts to a crude assembly of sincere testimony, somehow too long at 76 minutes and maybe actually a job for Werner Herzog instead. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Aug 15, 2012

Director Rob Whitehair doesn't do much to complicate what's essentially a promotional featurette for Wiede and Tucker's Wild Sentry organization, presenting the anti-wolf faction as rabid, irrational, and extreme. But he can't be blamed for wanting to stoke the drama a little: Without it, True Wolf would be a lesson in the care and feeding of an exotic pet. Read full review

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