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Grizzly Man

Actor(s): Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Warren Queeney, Willy Fulton, Sam Egli
Director(s): Werner Herzog
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity
Movie Release: 2005
DVD Release: 12/26/2005
Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned
Audio Tracks: English
Subtitles: Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 44 mins
Studio: Lions Gate
Members Wishing: 1
Genres: History, Nature, Biography, Animals, Tragedies & Catastrophes

DVD Synopsis

Filmmaker Werner Herzog adds another real-life character to his growing pantheon of people who walk a fine line between visionary genius and madness in this documentary. Timothy Treadwell was a self-styled authority on bears who, starting in 1990, would spend as much time as possible each year in Alaska, camping out near a grizzly bear habitat. While Treadwell claimed to love the bears and felt as one with them, he had no formal training in their behavior, and while familiarizing himself with the creatures he would walk within a few feet of them with a video camera in hand. To many, Treadwell seemed part man of nature, part conjuror, and part self-promotion expert, but the part that guided his kinship with the bears failed him in 2003, when he and his girlfriend were killed in a grizzly attack. Treadwell shot hundreds of hours of footage of himself and the grizzlies, and Herzog has used this footage as the core of Grizzly Man, a documentary look at Treadwell's life and death, while also including interviews with people who knew him, animal experts, and scientists. Acclaimed British guitarist Richard Thompson composed and performed the film's musical score. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Actors

Timothy Treadwell
Amie Huguenard
Warren Queeney
Willy Fulton
Sam Egli

Member Movie Reviews

Duane S. (superpoet) from FORT WORTH, TX wrote on 7/12/2008...

1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Wow, this movie really makes you think about wildlife, poaching, bears, living in the wild, etc. It's really good. It is the story of Timothy Treadwell aka Timothy Dexter ( in real life). He was a naturalist and film maker. He championed the bear in all aspects. He lived a portion of his life for 13 summers in bear country in Canada. His last trip he took a girlfriend. They both were killed by a rogue bear very late in the season. He never carried weapons and swore throughout the film that he never would hurt a bear to save his own life. When he was not in bear country filming and living, he traveled around Canada and gave free talks to schoolchildren and audiences.

Nicole B. from SUN PRAIRIE, WI wrote on 11/27/2007...

3 of 3 member(s) found this review helpful.

Nature documentaries don't get any more surreal than this.
This *untrained* happy-go-lucky, animal rights activist (Tim Treadwell) crosses the line between man & nature, legality, and... reality.
People say things about dogs like "Ahhh... he thinks he's people!" - Tim pretty much thought he was a bear. A Care Bear. And he and his girlfriend paid with their lives...

This movie is amazing though, because there is no attempt made by the director to gloss over reality or idealize/idolize Tim's life. There are a lot of very mean things said about him in here. There are a lot of good things too. (It's a lot better portrait of the (idiotic) romantic notion of Alaska as the last frontier than the fictionalized version of "Into the Wild.")

This movie is gruesomely vivid in it's detailing of the death. So this is NOT FAMILY FRIENDLY. That being said, it's an amazing, and haunting movie that will stay with you for a long time. And Tim did get some seriously amazing footage of American Grizzlies. It's a worthy legacy.