Fierce People is a 2005 American drama film based on a novel written by Dirk Wittenborn. It was directed by Griffin Dunne, and stars Anton Yelchin, Diane Lane, Chris Evans, Donald Sutherland and Kristen Stewart.
Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or "Fierce People," with the anthropo...
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Fierce People is a 2005 American drama film based on a novel written by Dirk Wittenborn. It was directed by Griffin Dunne, and stars Anton Yelchin, Diane Lane, Chris Evans, Donald Sutherland and Kristen Stewart.
Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) 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. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz (Diane 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 (Donald 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...
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