Fierce Creatures

– Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tyco..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.40 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 33 Minutes
Release Year:
1997
Fierce Creatures (1997)

Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.

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Producing Country:
USA, UK
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Fierce Creatures (1997) - Trailer

Release Date:

24 Jan 1997

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.

Director:

Fred Schepisi, Robert Young

Writer:

John Cleese, Iain Johnstone, Terry Jones (idea for "The Fierce Animal Policy"), Michael Palin (idea for "The Fierce Animal Policy")

Main Actors:

John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin

Plot:

A massive corporate conglomerate, Octopus Inc., run by a shrewd and cruel tycoon named Rod McCain, purchases a UK-based leisure company, and also the failing London Marwood Zoo. To bring more business to the zoo, Octopus hires a new manager, Rollo Lee, who promptly comes up with a way to increase profits-do away with all the animals except for the ferocious ones. This new Fierce Creatures Policy shocks the Marwood zookeepers, led by the unendingly talkative Adrian "Bugsy" Malone. Eventually, Rod McCain's son Vince, along with the up-and-coming business executive Willa Weston, take control of the zoo and revoke the Fierce Creatures Policy. Vince instead comes up with many under-handed and vicious schemes to attract customers-unauthorized celebrity endorsements, shoddy, overpriced zoo merchandise, and using robotic animals instead of real ones. However, Vince is also stealing from the zoo's funds, and when his father finds out, he rears to turn the zoo into a Japanese-owned golf course. Meanwhile, Willa has grown to love the zoo and its animals, and, along with her newly-reformed love interest Rollo, plot with the zookeepers to save the zoo from the McCains.

Production:

MCA Universal Home Video

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
Metacritic:
62%