Quest for Fire
A Science Fantasy Adventure
A Science Fantasy Adventure
Adventure, Drama
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1981
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In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors on a quest for more. With the tribe's future at stake, the warriors make their way across a treacherous landscape full of hostile tribes and monstrous beasts. On their journey, they encounter Ika, a woman who has the knowledge they seek.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
100 min
Release date:
16 Dec 1981
Country:
CA, FR
Languages:
xx
Budget:
$12,000,000
Revenue:
$55,260,558
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 7 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
An engaging prehistoric yarn that happily never degenerates into a club and lion skin spinoff of Star Wars and resolutely refuses to bludgeon the viewer with facile or gratuitous effects.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
Quest for Fire boldly states its claims to dance along the abyss of the ridiculous.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
These characters and their quest began to grow on me, and by the time the movie was over I cared very much about how their lives would turn out.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
''Quest for Fire'' is more than just a hugely enterprising science lesson, although it certainly is that. It's also a touching, funny and suspenseful drama about prehumans.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004