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Lord of the Flies (1990)

Director: Harry Hook

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From Time Out Film Guide

In this second version of William Golding's novel, a group of cadets from an American military school are stranded on a desert island, along with the wounded pilot, after their plane crashes. Eventually the camp divides; Ralph (Getty) and Piggy (Pipoly) represent the values imposed by adults and civilisation; while they struggle to maintain a signal fire, Jack (Furrh) and his band of hunters, giving way to more primitive impulses, run rampage and turn murderous. The film, simplistically assuming the book's central metaphor to be imperialism - hence the military slant - retains the bare bones of Gollding's narrative, but that's all. There's little attempt to hint at the deeper issues, while the revelatory moment when the impaled pig's head looms in the clearing to reveal man's inner darkness, is merely flat. Executive producer Lewis Allen also produced Peter Brook's superior 1963 version; he took on the project after learning that TV producers planned a remake with an 'upbeat ending'. This is better than that, but not nearly good enough.

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Time Out Film Guide

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  • neira said...
    Posted on Dec 01 2007 15:01 The movie is as bad as a book considering the fact that children are used to show some other aspects of ''civilized society''
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  • Bob said...
    Posted on Nov 12 2007 10:47 Extremely bad movie compared to the book which is already not really interesting
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  • yahan said...
    Posted on Oct 02 2007 13:21 okay movie
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Cast & crew

Director: Harry Hook

Producer: Ross Milloy

Cast: Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, Andrew Taft, Edward Taft, Gary Rule full cast

Duration: 90 mins


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