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IN SHORT (1991)
WHITE FANG ETHAN
HAWKE, KLAUS MARIA BRANDAUER (DIRECTED BY
RANDAL KLEISER, PG)
Credits
Rated: PG; Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama; With: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke and Randal Kleiser
C-
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Jack London's classic novel about a young adventurer who befriends a wolf-dog in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness has a lot of built-in hooks: scenes of bad guys abusing the animal and training him to be a killer; teary, Lassie Come Home reunions; our hero discovering gold in them thar hills. Yet despite some splendid snowcapped vistas and one rather frightening grizzly-bear attack, this new screen version is dramatically inert. Nothing in the picture really takes hold-certainly not the relationship between Jack (Ethan Hawke) and White Fang, who seem like near-strangers even at the final clinch. C-
Posted Jan 25, 1991
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