Word: tenterhook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Civilization stinks. This is the message of virtually every nature-vj.-nurture parable to hit the screen lately, from Splash to Greystoke to this feral melodrama about the encounter between a group of Arctic scientists and a prehistoric man they find miraculously preserved in ice. Tenterhook anxiety builds in the film's first hour as the scientists (led by Timothy Hutton and Lindsay Crouse) discover and then thaw out the creature (played by the gifted actor-director-choreographer John Lone). But once Hutton and the creature establish contact, moviegoers must make a great leap of faith, or surrender...
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