Roar (Blu-ray)
No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. 70 members of the cast and crew were.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 3, 2015
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Olive Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tippi Hedren, Noel Marshall & Melanie Griffith | |
Directed by | Noel Marshall | |
Screenwriting by | Noel Marshall | |
Cinematography by | Jan de Bont | |
Produced by | Noel Marshall & Tippi Hedren |
Entertainment Reviews:
Good lord, look what the filmmaker dragged in.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 2.5/4 --
If you want to see cats chasing people in packs, falling over themselves to descend stairwells, and jump up trees to swipe at disposable human protagonists--you will probably enjoy "Roar."
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RogerEbert.com
Knowing that everything in the film is real makes it a one-of-a-kind experience. It will have to be-no sane people would ever want to remake this.
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The Public (Buffalo)
It can best be described as a cross between a nature special, a home movie, a snuff film, and a key exhibit at a sanity hearing.
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Flavorwire
Rating: B --
ROAR is a thrilling bore, an inanity with actual peril in every scene.
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L.A. Weekly
Rating: 3.5/5 --
One of the truly singular one-offs in all of cinema history.
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Alternate Ending
Rating: 4/5 --
There's really not much going on with Roar storywise. But then you take a step back and think about what it is that you're watching. My viewing of Roar was set to a soundtrack of "Oh my God!" and "Holy crap!", all of my own making.
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Guardian
Product Description:
Wildlife activist and actress Tippi Hedren starred in this adventure written, directed by, and costarring her producer husband Noel Marshall and inspired by the surprise success of BORN FREE (1966). Hedren is Madeleine, a woman who brings her children (including real-life daughter and future movie star Melanie Griffith) to the African jungle for a visit with her long-estranged husband Hank (Marshall). An eccentric scientist, Hank has dedicated the past several years of his life to fighting for the preservation of endangered species. A snafu results in the family being met not by the environmentalist, however, but a pride of ferocious felines. ROAR (1981) was a box-office disaster that not only fell far short of recouping its $17 million budget -- Hedren and family reportedly had to mortgage their assets to finance it. The production was also known for its accident-prone, behind-the-scenes drama, which included a fire, a flood, and a disease that took the lives of several big cat performers. Resulting schedule delays turned the motion picture into an 11-year labor of love for Hedren, whose off-camera commitment to protection of big cats extended to the establishment of her own California game preserve called Shambala, later to be the subject of a book by Hedren and a television documentary.