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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 (494 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000BMY2NS
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,957 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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309 of 336 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.
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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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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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I must admit that my first reaction to this film was not immediately positive; Herzog's presence seemed overbearing and intrusive, and Treadwell himself was a figure so tragic as to be somewhat alienating. And yet I found that, days later, I found I was still thinking about it, still mesmerized by the questions it raised. How truly unsympathetic was Treadwell? Should I be somewhat jealous of him, for all the joy and depth of experience he found in his work? I have, as few have, found little in life so enriching and gratifying as what Treadwell appeared to find in the wilderness; are thirteen summers of that worth an early, terrible end?

So I saw the film again; I recommend that others do the same, if they find themselves at all intrigued after the first viewing. And then I saw the film again, and again. What I found with time -- as I let it develop into an obsession -- was an incredibly complex artwork, capable of provoking rich and sometimes startling meanings.

At its core, I now understand Grizzly Man to be a document of the desperate search for kinship in an alienating world; an insight into what happens when, failing to find an object which fulfills our desires, we resort to projecting our desires onto whatever might hold them. For as Treadwell imagines the bears to be his companions, so too does Herzog attempt to imagine Treadwell as a filmmaker of his own lineage, a comrade in the struggle to capture beauty in a wild and unforgiving universe. Intentionally or not, Herzog's intrusion into this documentary comes to parallel Treadwell's own intrusion into the bears' wild habitat; and we come to realize that the strange and austere beauty he finds in Treadwell's footage is more Herzog's invention than it is a product of the man who captured the images.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars A Stunning Testament to One Man's Idiocy
Press accounts of Timothy Treadwell's killing by the Grizzly bears he was living with left me wondering what his motivations were. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Lakeside
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Movie
I like this Movie but I liked the Diaries that are not included in this Documentary. The best of Timothy Treadwell movies are the "Grizzly Man Diaries". Read more
Published 7 days ago by R. Hogan Jr.
5.0 out of 5 stars Bipolar
This documentary was compelling and disturbing. I frequently have nightmares about bears and this added to my discomfort. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Anne E. Sneddon
3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty sad
You have to watch the whole thing to appreciate this flawed individual. Brace yourself for graphic descriptions. Like I said, sad.
Published 13 days ago by Texasflower
3.0 out of 5 stars Mental illness allowed to run free among the Alaskan wild Grizzly
Timothy lost his life, and the life of another, because of some sort of quest to be famous. Only someone with a mental illness could rationalize living among the wild Grizzly... Read more
Published 14 days ago by Hawaiian Joe
3.0 out of 5 stars Grizzly Man
Thought the main character: Grizzly Man was a bit "off". It seemed to us he had a bit of a psychological problem w/himself & way others saw him than truly taking interest... Read more
Published 19 days ago by L. Watson
4.0 out of 5 stars Raw Human Drama
Loved the Alaska scenery and wild bears. Gruesome story at the end (not visual but realizing what took place) but worth watching on many levels.
Published 21 days ago by PopaJ
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting view of someone suffering from paranoid delusional...
Timothy Treadwell (not his birth name, just another example of his crazyness) was a troubled fellow who decided that the only way to fix his issues would be to risk his life by... Read more
Published 22 days ago by Alex Alban
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 1 month 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 1 month ago by D. Brock
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Jul 5, 2009 by Nick Jones |  See all 7 posts
treadwell was a psychotic nut
His girlfriend had her own brain and no one forced her to go there with Treadwell. She knew perfectly well where she was going. I am amazed how people keep laying her death on Treadwell (whom I consider a very misguided nutcase, of course). I mean, if your boyfriend decided to go hang out with... Read more
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Yes - BUT IS THE MOVIE ANY GOOD?
yes, this IS a five star movie!
Jan 9, 2009 by lauri |  See all 7 posts
music from "Grizzly Man"
That's probably because it's actually by Don Edwards. The song is "Coyotes" though. I found it on iTunes. Hope that helps.
Nov 21, 2007 by D. Arnold |  See all 2 posts
A detailed report on the Attack (they were dumber than you think).
Thank you for the link--excellent discussion by what seems to be a decent bear-loving guy doing his best to tease out what happened. What has niggled at me about both Treadwell and McCandless is a mystery behind why they both seemed off-kilter. Why did McCandless renounce so much, take being... Read more
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