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A coming-of-age story
about the perils of privilege, Lions Gate Films’ FIERCE PEOPLE examines
the deceit and betrayal that erupts when a working-class mother and her son move
to a wealthy “country club” suburb where social climbing is a blood
sport. Starring Oscar ® nominee Diane Lane (UNFAITHFUL, UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN),
Donald Sutherland (COLD MOUNTAIN, THE ITALIAN JOB) and Anton Yelchin (HEARTS IN
ATLANTIS), FIERCE PEOPLE is directed by Griffin Dunne and written by Dirk Wittenborn,
who adapted the screenplay from his novel.
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 South American jungle: the super rich. While Liz battles
her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son’s love and trust,
Finn falls in love with Osbourne’s beautiful granddaughter, Maya (Kristin
Stewart), befriends her charismatic older brother, Bryce (Chris Evans), and even
wins the favor of Osbourne himself. But when a shocking act of violence shatters
Finn’s ascension within the Osbourne clan, the golden promises of this lush
world quickly sour. And both Finn and Liz, caught in a harrowing struggle for
their dignity, discover that membership always comes at a price…
Contrasting the mores of high society with the blunt savagery of primitive
tribes, FIERCE PEOPLE takes an inside look at the upper classes, examining the
darkness that lurks beneath the surface of good manners. Sporting a biting wit,
and featuring charismatic performances from Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland,
this unflinching drama exposes the trappings of wealth and privilege, and their
overwhelming power to both seduce and corrupt.
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- Cast: Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth
Perkins, Paz de la Huerta, Blu Mankuma, Chris Evans
- Directed by: Griffin Dunne
- Written by: n/a
- Executive Producers: Michael Paseornek, Michael Burns, Dirk Wittenborn
- Producers: Nick Wechsler, Keith Addis
- Genre: n/a
- Rating: n/a
- Running Time: n/a
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