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Grizzly Man (2005)

Timothy Treadwell , Amie Huguenard , Werner Herzog  |  R |  DVD
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  • Actors: Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Werner Herzog, Carol Dexter, Val Dexter
  • Directors: Werner Herzog
  • Writers: Werner Herzog
  • Producers: Alana Berry, Andrea Meditch, Billy Campbell, Erik Nelson, Jewel Palovak
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Subtitles: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Lions Gate
  • DVD Release Date: December 26, 2005
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (486 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000BMY2NS
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,048 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Grizzly Man" on IMDb

Special Features

  • "In the Edges: The Grizzly Man Session," a 50-minute documentary on the making of the film's music

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Grizzly Man could easily have been sensational and exploitative, but in the hands of Werner Herzog, it becomes something extraordinary. Herzog was granted exclusive access to over 100 hours of video shot by amateur naturalist, wildlife advocate and troubled loner Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 summers in Alaska's Katmai National Park, where he grew to know and love the grizzly bears that lived there. He was also killed by one of them, in October 2003, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard, and that seemingly inevitable fate informs every minute of Herzog's riveting combination of Treadwell's video with his own expert filmmaking and unique vision of nature and man. Whereas Treadwell was a naïve nature-lover and social outcast whose sanity was slowly slipping away, Herzog is a pragmatic mythologist who views nature primarily in terms of "chaos, hostility, and murder," and the disparity of their vision results in a magnetic attraction that makes the sum of Grizzly Man greater than its parts. We come to admire the dreamer, the idealist, the failed actor and recovered alcoholic man-child that was Treadwell, and we equally admire the seeker of truth and wisdom that is Herzog. They belong together, in some world beyond our world, where visionaries join forces to create life after death. --Jeff Shannon

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In this mesmerizing new film, acclaimed director Werner Herzog explores the life and death of amateur grizzly bear expert and wildlife preservationist Timothy Treadwell, who lived unarmed among grizzlies for 13 summers.

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308 of 335 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Every bear for himself and God against all. September 1, 2005
The amazing thing about Timothy Treadwell was that he survived 13 summers in the Alaska wilderness, living among gigantic, ferocious grizzly bears, until one of them finally ate him. Treadwell was a combination environmental activist, societal rebel, filmmaker, nutcase and holy fool. In other words, he was not unlike Werner Herzog, director of "Grizzly Man," the brilliant new documentary about Treadwell's life and horrible death. Herzog is much more self-aware than Treadwell ever was, and has much more of a sense of reality and irony. But as a filmmaker drawn to impossible projects ("Fitzcarraldo," "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"), he feels a definite kinship to Treadwell, even as he's appalled by Treadwell's egregious lapses of judgment. Treadwell shot more than 100 hours of film of himself and his beloved grizzlies, and Herzog culls the best of that film for "Grizzly Man." In his own film footage, Treadwell showed himself consistently to be an arrested adolescent, conflating the terrifying behemoths he lived among with his collection of teddy bears. (He speaks constantly of the mortal danger of living among grizzlies, but never quite seems to believe his own words.) Yet he also captured some of the most amazing nature scenes ever recorded, and Herzog respects him for that. (In his narration, Herzog also expresses great tenderness toward Amie Huguenard, the woman who loved Treadwell, followed him to the wilderness despite her fear of bears, and shared his horrible fate.) Whereas Treadwell sought order in nature, and believed the grizzlies loved him as much as he loved them, Herzog sees nothing in Treadwell's story except the workings of a chaotic universe sending one more dreamer to his doom. But because Treadwell's dreams were so outsized, Herzog sees him as a brother. So, thanks to Herzog, do we.
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50 of 54 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Treading Well Beyond Invisible Wires August 27, 2005
This is one of the most riveting documentaries of recent times. And only Werner Herzog could have made its many cogs mesh so tellingly and troublingly. By chronicling Timothy Treadwell's life and providing sympathetic but often-corrective commentary, Herzog shows how one man's benighted quest led him to filter out unpleasant facts in favor of self-aggrandizing fancies about his role in the scheme of things. (Treadwell not only looks a bit like the late John Denver but also seems plagued by the same egotistical drive to play the high-profile hero.)

Through Treadwell's footage as well as Herzog's own well-chosen interview sequences, we see the man whole: his naďveté and childlike delight, his folly, his self-dramatization, and the inner madness for which the natural world was perhaps a convenient but ultimately fatal escape hatch.

As soon as Treadwell styles himself the "protector" of millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness where grizzly bears are the top predator, we know that this man is headed for a horrid end. In his hyperbolic, self-indulgent protestations of love and protection toward the land and its creatures, we hear the unmistakable accent of a megalomaniacal solipsist -- a man whose magical thinking allows him to live in a "peaceable kingdom" where he can rewrite the rules of nature and reprimand her creatures for being what they are. As King Lear would say, "That way madness lies."

It is one of the film's many ironies that when Treadwell actually comes upon what he assumes to be bear poachers, he consciously chooses to remain hidden. Apparently, he planned to report the incident: on camera he fastidiously notes the time (down to the 18th second!) when the filming took place. But one can only conclude that when it comes to real cases, the "Great Protector" is nothing more than the "Great Pretender."

To his credit, Treadwell and the photographic assistant he'd prefer us to forget about (to bolster his self-made-man-from-Australia myth) captured many extraordinary features of Alaskan wildlife that we might otherwise never see. At the same time, however, by becoming a leading character in the show, Treadwell may also be unwittingly falsifying what we see: is this how the animals would behave in the presence of chroniclers to whom they were *not* habituated or whose presence they could *not* detect? Maybe we need both kinds of documentation.

Perhaps most striking of all is the paradoxical sweet-and-sour view of nature that Treadwell repeatedly displays -- here infantilizing some of the most ferocious carnivores on the continent (often giving them cartoonish monikers like "Mr. Chocolate," as if naming were taming), there acknowledging the deadly danger of what he is doing. Both sides of the paradox fuel Treadwell's self-aggrandizement: he can treat these creatures like oversize pets while reveling in whatever special personal charm keeps him safe. In reality, he was just supremely lucky that before October 2003, he had encountered no bear desperately hungry enough to see him and girlfriend Amie Huguenard as a two-course meal. Treadwell may have died doing what *he* wanted to do (and he may well have wanted to die in just this way), but we have good reason to doubt Amie's assent to a comparable fate as the desirable way to go.

For me at least, the scene that most tellingly sums up Treadwell's faulty vision finds him crouched in a tent during a violent rainstorm. (He has, to his mind, virtually summoned up the deluge by registering a near-infantile tantrum of protest with all the higher powers, so that the rivers may flow abundantly and "his" starving bears may catch their fill of fish. Curiously, the same man who bewails cannibalized bear cubs and dead little foxes shows no sympathy for the salmon that will get crushed alive in the mouths of bears -- yet another example of Treadwell-style tunnel vision.) We soon see him snuggling a favorite toy from childhood that had first appeared only moments earlier during an interview with his grieving parents. And whaddya know? It's a teddy bear, that adorable stuffed animal that gives us all our first false lesson in bear lore. I suspect that Treadwell never fully accepted the shocking difference between real bears and their childhood impostors. Decades ago at the Denver Zoo, I saw a sign that offered a curt corrective to the Great TB Fallacy: "All bears are dangerous." You'd better believe it, Winnie-the-Pooh!

I think part of Treadwell believed that, but a stronger part didn't want this inconvenient fact to block his irrational impulse to "domesticate" an untamable force of nature to which native people (who have lived in bear country for millennia) have the good sense to give a wide berth of awe and respect. Neither boundless optimism nor American pioneering spirit nor Edenic wishful thinking can trump nature's rules of engagement. The natural world is a dense network of largely invisible trip wires: we humans have no foolproof sense for detecting whether we have transgressed another creature's invisible perimeter-alert system before we're too far inside to escape its tooth and claw. Nature responds simply and effectively to foolhardiness: her creatures devour the unwary and the unwise.

At one point during a manic tirade against the National Park Service, Treadwell screams, "Animals rule!" -- or something to that effect. Yes! But for all his immersion in the wild, the self-absorbed Treadwell never grasps the nature of Nature. Where wild animals rule, tread well and wisely -- or not at all.
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55 of 60 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Chocolate is a Carnivore February 26, 2006
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I liked this movie but I have to agree with all the reviews (who rate it both good and bad) that say Timothy Treadwell is emotionally and mentally ill. It's true: the most amazing thing about his story was that he wasn't killed and eaten any sooner.

I sympathize with the family and friends for their loss, but I can't gloss over what a crazy, grandstanding and ultimately suicidal "mission" this was. He wasn't exactly Diane Fossey, who literally fought poachers off the mountain gorillas in Rwanda--these bears were in a state park.

Absolutely NOTHING in science or life tells Treadway or anyone else that it's safe to live with bears. He ventures into the wild and lives in a constant state of delusion, even as the bears kill and eat each other, his cute little foxes, the adorable little cubs. As Herzog points out, there's nothing to support Treadway's fantasy world of harmony in the bloody Alaskan wilderness.

GRIZZLY MAN is a fascinating story but I have to agree with the reviews which compare the interviews with BEST IN SHOW or A MIGHTY WIND.

(If you were fascinated by this story, check out the book INTO THE WILD, about another young man who disappeared and died in the Alaskan bush in an attempt to live off the land. GORILLAS IN THE MIST is both a book and a movie about Diane Fossey, another controversial person who fought on behalf of endangered animals).
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4.0 out of 5 stars Grizzly Man
Pretty Good, kinda weird but good. Sorry he was killed showed a lot of guts and passion for what he did and loved!!
Published 11 days ago by Granlov5
4.0 out of 5 stars Strange
This film was interesting, but somewhat strange. I had to watch it for a class project. Excellent to do an evaluation of Timothy's behavior.
Published 19 days ago by D. Brock
4.0 out of 5 stars A grizzly ending for the Grizzly Man
I remember hearing about this man on the news way back when. He really was fearless when it came to his love for these creatures but he also came across as somewhat psychotic. Read more
Published 1 month ago by consolation
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't Feed the Bears: The Tragic Tale of Timothy Treadwell
After viewing GRIZZLY MAN, I am left with a haunting sense of perplexity that such a scenario was ever allowed to unfold. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Red Xala
5.0 out of 5 stars different
This is a very different type of film, unique, interesting and beautiful. It had been years since I rented this, then I saw the routine that Ron White did on it and decided I had... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Rush Limeball
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Experience.
Great documentary and service. Great stuff. Great and perfect situation. Lovely product. Would definitely do this again and purchase another thing.
Published 1 month ago by Truston T. Aillet
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth watching
I'll pretty much watch anything Herzog does. Particularly documentaries. This is an interesting and minimally judgemental portrait of an extremely polarizing individual whose... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kendra L Hogan
4.0 out of 5 stars Bearly a Good Documentary!
I watched this movie after hearing about it on the Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan claims it is one of the funniest films of all time. I tend to disagree. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Dan
5.0 out of 5 stars Darwin Awards?
Grizzly Man is excellent film making on Werner Herzog's end, but be forewarned that it's more sensationalist and exploitative than the Amazon.com review lets on. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Airplane Shots!
5.0 out of 5 stars Grizzly Man
Stunning photography, great soundtrack from Richard Thompson.
A complex tale about an obsessive naturalist and our uneasy relationship with nature. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jeffrey Mason
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