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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780780621756 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 0780621751 Label: Pbs Home Video Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Pbs Home Video Release Date: July 07, 1998 Running Time: 54 minutes Sales Rank: 15516 Studio: Pbs Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Description: Travel with acclaimed actress Julia Roberts to the beautifully exotic land of Borneo in search of the sole surviving great apes of Asia. With their extremely long arms and short, bowed legs, orangutans love their tree life and rarely come down to the ground. Covered with reddish fur, and wearing a gentle, thoughtful expression, these creatures are one of the most intelligent on earth. But has illegal poaching and habitat destruction placed the apes in danger of extinction?
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Rating: - If your interest is very much Julia Roberts and a little bit Orangutans, this is for you.
If you are interested in learning about orangutans, there are a LOT better choices out there. The film is about Julia Roberts's month-long experience with orangutans, as seen by Julia Roberts, who left the comfortable surroundings normally enjoyed by Julia Roberts. Do we really need the montage of Julia leaving NYC, with multiple art-school close-ups/silhouettes? Or so much focus on her Hepburnesque boat making its way up the river?
Still, orangutans being what they are, there is footage to commend this effort. Seeing the orangutan empty a flooded canoe to make its way across the ... Read More
Rating: - Cleese in top form
In this "In the Wild" episode, John Cleese ventures to Madagascar to check up on five captive-raised lemurs that were released back into the forest. Along the way, he peppers his explanations and commentary with typical one-liners, just what you'd expect from the Monty Python alum. Anyone who likes Mr. Cleese's style will not be disappointed. Besides the entertainment value, you will learn a thing or two about lemurs, too!
Four stars. Highly enjoyable!
Rating: - In the Lion's Den with Anthony Hopkins
This is a Wonderful movie about the behavior and myths about Lions.
Rating: - In the Wild: Lemurs With John Cleese
If you like lemurs, but this now. Now, now, now. Go on, I'll wait. Got it? Good.
I wish all nature programs could be this funny, entertaining and informative. Cleese's self-deprecating humor and his obvious love for lemurs shine through and make this a wonderful documentary. Plus, his honesty is a breath of fresh air -- after the tremendously long plane trip to Madagascar, an incredibly bumpy ride over what could only charitably be called "roads," and slogging (mostly uphill) through the rainforest only to catch a slight glimpse of the tail of one lemur, almost a football field away, ... Read More
Rating: - A portrait of that magnificent creature... a movie star
This would be indistinguishable from any random episode of "Nova" or "Nature" without the stardust sprinkled over the proceedings by the elfin Academy Award [registered trademark!] winner who - as it happened - was the only reason I sought this out in the first place. Consequently, I think I may have learned more about "actress hollywoodus" than "felidae acinonyx". Ms. Hunter shamelessly twinkles, dramatizes, flirts, and broods - effortlessly capturing the center of attention, whatever the situation. In a word: she's a star - even in the incongruous setting of Africa, whose film associations provide ... Read More
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