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Old Harry (Richard Harris) recounts his childhood adventure with a grizzly bear. As a young boy with his beloved mother dead, his adventurer father Tyrone Bankston (Bryan Brown) returns to take him out of his hated boarding school. They head into the Canadian wilderness to capture bears with native guide Joshua McTavish (Tom Jackson) and some questionable hired hands.

This falls into the category of tall tales and I certainly wouldn't want any young boys to try this. The bear scenes with the boy seem sometimes to be composite scenes. I would hate to think the bear was that close during filming. As long as one keeps that in mind, this is a fine adventure movie. It feels like a Disney movie from the 70's or 80's.

Although the story line of this movie was somewhat unrealistic, it was entertaining nonetheless. It was about what I expected, and was a nice change of pace from the typical sex and crime movies that are so common these days.

This is obviously not a movie that will be enjoyed by everyone, but anyone who loves nature should appreciate this film. The scenery is beautiful and refreshing. Most older children will probably love it, but there is mild violence and younger children might be frightened.

At times the plot moves slowly, but doesn't get overly boring for the adults. Not a bad picture overall.

Movie Review for "Grizzly Falls"

Can you imagine a 1,000-pound mother grizzly bear, mothering a real live boy. Well, here is a wonderful movie for you. This movie is very breath taking. The actors in this movie portray their roles very well. Especially the newcomer Harry (Daniel Clark.) Although this movie is very good I would not recommend it for kids under he age of 6. There are some gory parts to this movie. In this one scene the mother bear is mauling one of the hunters. This movie is a very good action, adventure movie. This is a very good movie for father and son. It shows how close they become. I would recommend going to see this movie. This movie was filmed in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.

This movie should come with a warning label: WARNING: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ATTEMPT TO VIEW IF YOUR IQ IS ABOVE 80!

It's a nauseatingly special Lifetime-esque movie about a boy and his father who attempt to heal their relationship by hunting grizzly bears together. The motherless boy first establishes some kind of psychic connection with a mother bear and her cubs, and when the cubs (conveniently the same pair) are later trapped by the party of hunters, the mama grizzly (wait for it, folks)... takes her revenge by kidnapping the boy! She hauls him through the forest, bonding with him and apparently intending to raise him as her own, while his father tries to track them.

I like Bryan Brown. He's an actor who's been in many fine productions, and a lot of really lousy ones. But of all the horrible things he's ever been in, I believe this has to be the worst. This film has absolutely NO good points whatsoever! The fact that there are people insane enough to say it does says a lot about the dumbing down of America.

AVOID IT, AVOID IT, AVOID IT!!!

This was one of the biggest let downs I ever experienced in a family movie. The language was ridiculously strong and the acting was very forced during dramatic moments (not natural at all) and very humdrum during more relaxed moments (the actors did little more than go through the motions and merely say lines). The movie rolls along with a boy and a bear . . . and a boy and a bear . . . and a boy and a bear. You get the feeling while you're watching the movie that you're peeking in on a wildlife adventure with a boy who has lost his way in the wide open wild--and is not the least bit worried about it (because all nature is at peace with him) and, whaddayaknow! He just happens upon a bear who was trained at birth to treat every lost person in the woods like a life-long friend. The plot may have been an interesting one were it not for the lackadasaical directing, and the acting spurs little more than a few mouth drops (due to unnecessary language in front of the little ones) and a few yawns. Seriously, I couldn't keep my ten year old interested. We've never rented it twice and will never bother again.

A good movie, that should probably have been rated PG-13, in my opinion. There are some genuinely terrifying parts, bad language, and some violent and realistic fighting. It keeps you pretty close to the edge of your seat, for most of the film.

The family-relationship subplot was not very convincing, but otherwise an excellent film. I also found it confusing that the Grandfather made some comment about moving to England from Chicago, and as a child attended what appeared to be an English boarding school...but took the train out west to look for bears. Maybe I misunderstood something.

(One note: the bear is not Bart, but Ali Oop. I have submitted a correction to IMDb.)

Old Harry (Richard Harris) is telling his grandchildren a campfire story out in the woods. And, what a tale it is! When Harry was young, his mother died and his father, Tyrone (Bryan Brown) was a world adventurer who took months to come back and retrieve his son. After their reunion, Tyrone suddenly announced his intent to capture a grizzly bear! Father and son, along with a ragtag team of somewhat seamy volunteers, go out in the woods and try to do the deed. But, low and behold, when the party captures two grizzly cubs, the mother bear captures young Harry! Thinking he is her new offspring, Mother Grizzly keeps close tabs on Harry, preventing an early escape. Will Harry ever see his father again? This film is just, well, bearific! The human actors do a great job but the bears in the film are beyond compare. One truly can walk hand in hand with a grizzly and experience what this young boy did every step of the way. The scenery is lovely, too, making the film a great pleasure to watch. If you have any animal lovers in your household, or even if you just want to stir up some excitement for a family film night, you could hardly do better than this movie. It is a great achievement in cinema for audiences of all ages, pawsitively marvelous. Don't hesitate to look for the film at the library or video store, today, tomorrow or very soon. Your family will clap for joy at the film's end.

After losing his mother, Harry (Daniel Clark) is sent to a boarding school. His Father(Bryan Brown) comes to take him on a trip with a few other people to catch and bring back a live grizzly bear. After two bear cubs are captured, the mother bear comes and kidnaps Harry Bankston. She takes him to the spot where her bear cubs are being kept. On the way there, they became friends. After the mother bear frees her cubs, she leaves Harry and goes back into the wild. Most of the acting is good and the actors make the movie believable. Grizzly Falls is a good movie directed at children under the age of thirteen, but it could also be enjoyed by parents, grandparents, and animal lovers.

Unbelievable as this fictional movie may be, this is an action packed adventure that will keep your attention to the end! The relationship between the boy "Harry" and the bear is original and convincing! Such wonderful acting is given so little credit (in fact no mention at all that I have noticed) by the "Critics". If nothing else gave this movie color and amusement, the sound track alone would make it interesting!

(Note: Some strong language & violence, however, W/O blood & gore!).

Grizzly Falls is a great movie intended mainly for a young audience around the age of 10. This PG movie is an adventure story about a boy (Daniel Clark) who befriends a bear after being kidnapped due to its cubs being taken by the boy's father (Bryan Brown). Of course, the boy and the bear learn to respect each other and become just like family. Overall, it's not a bad movie. Harry and the mother grizzly make a hilarious team together. Although you more than likely seen this plot many times, it's a little different because he learns to respect nature and family values through a bear. Grizzly Falls is a really good family movie to watch with the kids.

This film is lovely.I love bears and the bear of the film it´s funny and nice.Inspired in old times the story is good because it teach us the respect to the natural things and the love that we must have with animals.Actors are Good in special young Harry and Missy the bear. this a story for all the family and there is not explicit violence. SENTENCE FOR GRIZZLY FALLS: LOVELY FILM FOR ALL AGES

Grizzly Falls is an all-American family movie. It's the perfect movie for the preteen audiences ranging from the ages of 10 to 13. This movie wasn't the greatest, but I will say that it had a cute and adventurous story behind it. I think that if you have children of the suggested ages and you would like to watch a clean movie, then this movie would be a great way to finish the day off with. The fairy-tale began around a campfire of generations. As Harry (Richard Harris) grasped the children's hearts with fear, he slowly faded into his own past. His campfire story began with the amazing adventures of his life. The younger Harry (Daniel Clark)started with a heartfelt story as a motherless child, explaining the pains of an absent father (Bryan Brown). After years of relentless actions, Harry's father finally decided to let the past be the past. He took his son along with him, on a trip in search of his father's spirit and to catch a live grizzly for scientific knowledge. While they were hunting for the grizzly, they came across two cubs alone in the water. The hunters thought the mother grizzly was dead, so they took the two cubs for observations and to fill in the absence of their mother. To make a long story short, the mother grizzly came back and took Harry hostage. Although she was a grizzly and grizzlies are known for terror, she did nothing to harm him. Harry soon grew fond of the mother grizzly and named her Mizzy. He came up with that name because she seemed miserable without her cubs. As the father searched for his son, Harry grew closer to Mizzy and learned to respect nature. From there, the epic adventure gets better and better as the search continues and bonds grow stronger. I'm not going to tell you the end because I feel like I've already told you too much.

I must admit that I'm a sucker for this kind of movie, taking the "lesser" animals' side against the most dangerous animal... man I rooted for the bear the whole time--and worried what would happen to her if the father of the boy she kidnapped to help her get her cubs back caught up with her. Daniel Clark as "Harry" touchingly showed how his love for his feral captor developed to the point where he saw her as a virtual replacement for his dead mother. It's nice to see a film for general audiences that isn't the typical bland Disney fare. I voted this film a 10 out of 10.

After reading the movie summary I watched it without a lot of expectation but in the end I loved it. Watching the bear give the boy a big face lick is funny and heartwarming, and you'll forget how unlikely this can be.

Reviewed on: 03/04/04 1hr. 34min.

i have been watching movies all my life and this movie is not the bestbut not the worst. Its just not for me. This movie named "Grizzly Falls" is rated PG. I thinkthis movie is made for preteens, ages 10-13. the movie is based on adventure(if you call living with a bear adventure). The movie stars Bryan brown (playing Tyrone), Daniel Clark(as Harry), and Tom Jackson (joshua). the characters are easy to understand, but they dont always dress their part.(You will see what i mean when you watch the movie.)In the movie their wardrobe never matches the scene. The actors arent the best but they fill their parts. they just dont do any more than necessary. The movie was farily esy to follow. (Im hoping you are educated enough to follow it.)

The movie is about a boy, Harry, his father, Tyrone, and his men go to the mountains to catch a grizzly. On their journey Harry came across two grizzly cubs at a river. Then later into their journey they came across the momma bear and her cubs. She malled man who became very angry and wanted to kill the bear. Then they captured the two cubs and locked them up. Afterward the boy was feeding the cubs when the mother grizzly captured him and drug him away into the mountains. While Harry was making friends with the grizzly, who he named Mizzy, his father, Tyrone, and his friend, Joshua, were searching for him. In the time he was with Mizzy he tried many new things, like eating raw fish and bugs. He cooked Mizzy some fish on the fire he made. After all their experiences together Harry finally realized that Mizzy was following her cubs the whole time and he led him straight to them. To bad though because to find out the rest or the details between you are going to have to watch it yourself.

Grizzly falls is mediocre movie with the pretty good acting. The movie is mainly for boys ages 6-12 and girls 8-12. Directed by Stuarte Raffle. It starts out with grown Harry Bankston telling his grandkids of his amazing adventure as a kid. Young harry bankston(Daniel Clark), after his mother died is forced to travel with his father, Tyrone(Bryan Brown),an international gamehunter. He trys to capture a live grizzly bear. While chasing it he encounters the cubs and takes them. Harry gets taken by the mother bear. While the father chases the bear holding harry captive, the boy forms a strong bond with the bear learning values of families. This movie is just like other movies that have reunions and such but it is still a great movie with a lot of adventure.

This is a rare Canadian film funded by the Canadian government that actually tries to be entertaining, no doubt due to the fact that it was a co-production with England and the United States. It also has above average production values as well, with good photography and well-dressed sequences, though there are occasionally some signs that they didn't have enough money to do anything (when the boy is dragged away for kilometers from camp by the bear, we don't see this.) Still, I don't see this movie being appropriate for kids or their parents. Parents will notice that the characters are pretty thinly written and don't grab our attention. Parents will also notice that most of the movie consists of the boy and the bear wandering place to place with no consequence, and that gets boring pretty quick. (I think kids will get bored by this as well.) And during the climax, there is some surprisingly brutal violence that might freak out younger kids. In the end, this is yet another Canadian film that explains why English Canadians for the most part will not embrace their country's film industry.

Review of Grizzly Falls Grizzly Falls 3-4-04 Clinton Cook

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This film is a PG rated adventure film for families. It was opened in 1999 an lasts 93 min. The main characters in the film are Daniel Clark (Henry), Richard Harris (older Harry), and Bryan Brown (Tyrone). This is a story about a boy who lost his mother when he was very young and had to leave his house in the city to go live with his father in a tent out in the wilderness. One night when Harry was out in the wilderness he came across a mother bear (Missy) that came into their encampment looking for her cubs. Harry faints at the site of the mother bear, when he awoke he found himself in the middle of the biggest experience he will ever encounter.

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Grizzly Falls review 3/15/04

Picture a 1000-pound wild grizzly bear approaching you, and lovingly licking your face. How believable is this notion? Well, in the film Grizzly Falls, this notion is very real. This pseudo-realistic `kid flick' features the story of Tyrone (Bryan Brown), a game hunter who is the father of Harry Bankster (Daniel Clark). Because Tyrone travels all over the world, he barely sees his son and is somewhat of a quasi father figure. When Harry's mother passes away, Tyrone decides to take Harry with him on his next hunting expedition. The purpose of this expedition is to track down and tranquilize a full-grown grizzly bear and then take it in for research. However the tranquilizer dart fails (surprise, surprise!). Instead, the Tyrone and his hunting party capture the bear's cubs. Can you guess what momma bear's gonna do? She retaliates. Unable to free her own cubs, the female grizzly strikes back by kidnapping Tyrone's son Harry (are bears really that smart?). Harry, eventually, warms up to the bear and nick names her Mizzy. After a long journey, Harry and Mizzy reunite with their family members. The theme of the story is also revealed at this time: the importance of a good parent and child relationship. The movie was pretty mediocre and acting was no more than average. About the only thing that is worth commending is the great performance by the bear, known in real life as `Ali Oop' and trained by Ruth Labarge. The bear may have been the best actor in the movie! I especially loved the `come here' hand gestures demonstrated by the bear. The movie has a PG rating because of some frightening scenes with a very large and angry bear. Perhaps if I was ten years younger I might have enjoyed the film, and since I've seen a lot of good movies, that's a major 'if'. However, if you're a parent of young children (7-10), this mild action-adventure will entertain them for 1 hour and 34 minutes. This film is definitely not the best of director Stewart Ratliff, then again, he doesn't have that many bests.

Movie Rewiew for "Grizzly Falls"

Grizzly Falls is a mediocre movie about a boy who befriends a mama bear and later nicknames "Mizzy." But all in all, Grizzly Falls is mainly intended for the 7-12 age group, mainly because of the non-realistic elemnts within the video. I, myself, wouldn't choose to pay to see the movie. Don't ge me wrong, it did have a couple of great parts, but as a whole, this movie wasn't awesome. This movie deserved its PG rating due to the childish elements. I would label "Grizzly Falls" as an action/adventure since they are, you know in the wilderness. The acting in "Grizzly Falls" was ok, not great or wonderful becuase it didn't reel me in to believe this was really happening.

Tyrone is out to get a grizzly for research. But things go wrong when they take her cubs. And she gets Harry. Mizzy keeps Tyrone far enough behind to teach Harry some lessons. Harry is going to teach Mizzy some, also. She treats him to grub worms from under a log and some rare fish. So he pays her the favorite back with some cooked fish. But Mizzy forgot to bring the manners. Harry says that is the last.Then Mizzy would like to show how smart grizzlies really are. This is a maxed out PG-13 movie. Good for ages 8-10 and anyone into animals. This movie is a 6 on a scale from 1-10. Another good movie that I have reviewed for out of my 10 years. This isn't a must see but you need to bring the kids for a past time.

Starring Bryan Brown, Daniel Clark, and Tom Jackson. Rated pg due to mild language and a little violence. This is definitely an adventurous movie. 93 minutes long. This movie was produced by Stewart Raffial. This is a story about a growing bond between farther and son. Tyrone (Bryan Brown) hasn't really been there for his son Harry (Daniel Clark).after the death of Harry's mother, Tyrone decides to take Harry with him on one of his hunts. The hunt was to catch a grizzly bear for study. The plans go wrong and they catch the grizzly's cubs instead. the mother is furious so she decides to take Harry. The two become close and learn to love each other, while Tyrone goes on a journey to find his stolen son. Grizzly falls is a family movie. This is a good movie about the value of family bonds, Children will love this movie due to the adventures. This is definitely a movie I'm going to get.

Grizzly Falls is a cute family adventure. Soon after Harry's (Daniel Clark) mother passes away, and is sent to boarding school, his adventurous father (Bryan Brown) who has been away on a trip, comes to take him Harry on the trip of his lifetime. His father is to catch a full-grown grizzly bear, live, to study-which had not been done before. One thing leads to another on their adventure and instead of the full grown grizzly, they catch her two cubs. With that, the mother bear took young Harry in trade. I enjoyed Grizzly Falls, just as much as I enjoy every other animal adventure movie. It was definitely a family film; mostly ages 6-12 would enjoy it. If you have children under the age of 6, you may not want them to see the film due to it being about grizzly bears and they are not so sweet and cuddly all of the time. The movie itself went along smoothly, in it were some very nice heart warming scenes along with action packed, and suspenseful ones. I thoroughly enjoyed the film and would highly recommend those of you who like animals and nature; or if you like subtle action movies with great scenery to go and rent the film for you and your family.