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Grey Owl(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-10-01
56%
73 Votes
Time: 1h 57m
A dream to save the wilderness. A secret that shocked the world.
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?
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom,
United States of America
Budget: $30,000,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Beaver Productions
Ajawaan Productions
New City Releasing
Movie: Grey Owl
Top 10 Billed Cast
Pierce Brosnan
Grey Owl
Stewart Bick
Cyrus Finney
Vlasta Vrana
Harry Champlin
Annie Galipeau
Pony
Neil Kroetsch
First Hunter
Serge Houde
Second Hunter
Peter Colvey
Hotel Guest
Nathaniel Arcand
Ned White Bear
Jacques Lussier
Hotel Manager
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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?
Release Date
1999-10-01
Average
5.6
Rating:
2.8 startsTagline
A dream to save the wilderness. A secret that shocked the world.
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