Jean-Jacques Annaud, director of the similarly themed THE BEAR (1989), devotes less time to plot than to re-creating the magical beauty of early 20th-century Southeast Asia and coaxing "performances" out of tigers without special-effects trickery. The Great Tiger and Tigress live in relative peace and harmony with nature among deserted ruins with their two cubs. But literary adventurer Aidan McRory (Guy Pearce) discovers there's money to be made scavenging for jungle artifacts and invades the tigers' forgotten sanctuary. While the mother cat scrambles to hide her young, their father tries to drive off the intruders and attacks a member of Aidan's fortune-hunting part...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG
Length:
109 mins