Grey Owl

Grey Owl

A dream to save the wilderness. A secret that shocked the world.

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Release Date

10/1/1999

Runtime

117 mins

Overview

Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods, where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to stop trapping. Instead, he works as a guide, a naturalist writer, and then the Canadian government hires him to save the beaver in a conserve by Lake Ajawaan in Prince Albert National Park. He writes a biography, which brings him attention in Canada and invitations to lecture in England. Before he leaves, he and Anahareo (Pony) marry. In England, his secret is revealed. Will Anahareo continue to love him?

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$30,000,000

Revenue

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A portrait of transformation and secrets set against the Canadian wilderness, where a man's reinvention as a conservationist collides with the truth of his past. Intimate and elegiac, it asks whether genuine change can survive exposure.

Mood

MelancholicHopefulRomanticContemplative

Themes

RedemptionLoveNatureIdentityBetrayal

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticPainterly

Structure

Linear

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Animal harm

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