The Clan of the Cave Bear (film)

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The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1986 film based on the eponymous book by Jean M. Auel. It was directed by Michael Chapman and stars Daryl Hannah. The film follows Ayla (Hannah) as a Cro-Magnon (proto-human) girl who was separated from her family, only to be found by a group of Neanderthals. The film is considered to be a box-office flop, having cost US $15 million to produce and only brought in $1.9 million domestically.

[edit] Cast

• Daryl Hannah
• Pamela Reed
• James Remar
• Thomas G. Waites
• John Doolittle
• Curtis Armstrong
• Martin Doyle
• Tony Montanaro
• Mike Muscat
• John Wardlow
• Keith Wardlow
• Karen Austin
• Barbara Duncan
• Gloria Lee
• Janne Mortil
• Nicole Eggert

[edit] External link

• The Clan of the Cave Bear at the Internet Movie Database

Reasons for Box Office Failure There are many reasons why this film was not as successful as had been hoped, some of these reasons include: The filmmaker's instead of following Auel’s novel, which has the characters speaking English so that the audience knew what was going on, used their own language. This is translated for the audience with subtitles.

The film also switches around too much trying to make the audience keep watching (not only does this confuse the audience) but it turns out to be boring anyway and in the end Jean.M.Auel was so embarrased by this film that she sued the producers who made the movie for a US $40 million.