She's also walked the walk with personal activism that includes board positions with several organizations, as well as participation in numerous protests. In 2005, she launched DHLoveLife, a website designed to offer sustainable solutions for green living. In recent years, Hannah has gone from introspection to being true to what she believes in - environmentalism. In a moment of introspection, she says to her mother, "I've always been good, haven't I?" Tracey is facing up to the fact that being good isn't always being true to what matters. As the mermaid Madison, she was Tom Hanks's co-star in Ron Howard's hit fantasy Splash.įor me, though, the unforgettable Hannah moment comes in the 1984 feature Reckless, in which she plays Tracey Prescott, the prim high school cheerleader who falls for bad boy Johnny Rourke (Aidan Quinn). She came back with real strength in 1984. Less impressive, was her starring role the same year in writer-director Randal Kleiser's Summer Lovers, a Greek Islands idyll in which the 21-year-old actress spent much of her screen time nude. After making her feature film debut in Brian De Palma's paranormal thriller The Fury (1978), she made a major impression on sci-fi fantasy fans, with her showy supporting performance as the acrobatic replicant Pris, in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). For additional information on this archived material, please visit my FAQ.Īfterword: To paraphrase Shania Twain's 2002 hit song, Daryl Hannah is not just a pretty face. The above is a restored version of a Province review by Michael Walsh originally published in 1986. Somewhere along the way, though, it turned into Sheena Meets the Manson Family. Because of Chapman's failure to bring the primordial past alive, the episode plays like a standard movie rape scene, an act of deliberate villainy used to set up an act of violent retributive justice further along in the story.Ī former cinematographer, Chapman may have set out to produce the "evolutionary epic" described in the press notes. None of this is meant to be taken seriously, a fact that becomes apparent when Broud has his way with Ayla. This, after all, is a tribe in which women touch hunting weapons on pain of death. In addition, her refusal may be a breach of clan etiquette. Ayla's violent rejection of the male with the best prospects in the only world she knows doesn't make a lot of sense. Under such circumstances, Broud's attentions ought to please her. Early in the film, blonde, blue-eyed Ayla is identified as an "other," a woman who may like children but who is told that she won't have any of her own because no Neanderthal male could possibly find her attractive. Actress Hannah, with her clean hair, could be a surfer girl who's accidentally wandered into their wilderness commune.Ĭonsider that encounter with Broud. Though set "35,000 years ago," this cave bear's clan seem less like Neanderthals than a collection of leftover hippies. Despite an abundance of subtitles and voice-over narration, his picture is unconvincing as a portrait of man's early ancestors. The rugged authenticity of his British Columbia locations notwithstanding, Chapman never manages to involve us in the story of Ayla, a Cro-Magnon orphan adopted by a tribe of passing Neanderthals. As a result, his picture is neither convincingly primeval nor outrageous enough to be much fun. Realizing, perhaps, that both approaches were successful, Chapman opts for an awkward combination of the two. Occasionally, there are hints of Quest for Fire (1981), Jean-Jacques Annaud's painstaking attempt to represent the distant past as it might really have been. (1966), the British-made prehistoric that featured duelling dinosaurs and Raquel Welch in a bunny-fur bikini. Auel's best-selling novel to the screen, he can't make up his mind whether to be serious or silly.Īt times, he seems to be following the example of One Million Years B.C. Unlike Broud, director Michael Chapman has no clear idea of what he wants. Taking advantage of his size and strength, he forces himself on her. The future leader of The Clan of the Cave Bear, Broud will not be denied. To his annoyance, she refuses him, begs to be left alone and even attempts to fend him off. Broud raises his hands to his chest, gripping them together in a manner that signals his wish to couple with her. The need is there when he encounters Ayla (Daryl Hannah), adopted daughter of Iza (Pamela Reed), the tribal medicine woman. A typical Neanderthal, he regards sex as an appetite to be satisfied when and where the need arises. WAITES), son of Brun (John Doolittle), knows what he wants. Classifier's warning: some suggestive scenes, occasional violence and nudity.īROUD (THOMAS G.
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