MANKIND DISCOVERS MAN’S BEST FRIEND.
20,000 years ago, teenager Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee) joins his father on a hunting party; after a dramatic incident, he’s left for dead, but survives and nurses a wild wolf back to health. Albert Hughes’s first feature without his brother imagines a symbolic first encounter between man and the animal that would become the first domesticated dog. Obviously an irresistible tale to any dog lover as we follow the teen and the wolf’s adventurous journey, slowly accepting each other as family members. Smit-McPhee is fairly engaging and the film benefits from attempts to get historical details right.
2018-U.S. 96 min. Color. Widescreen. Direction, Story: Albert Hughes. Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee (Keda), Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson (Tau), Natassia Malthe (Rho), Leonor Varela, Jens Hultén. Narrated by Morgan Freeman.
