Plot Summary
A hunter-gatherer tribe called the Yagahl live in the Ural Mountains. They survive by hunting woolly mammoths, but as the migrations grow more scarce, uncertainty as to their future mounts. When a young blue-eyed girl is brought to their camp, the lone survivor of an attack of “four-legged demons”, the Yagahl’s shamanistic Neanderthal Old Mother prophesizes that the demons will come for them as well after their last mammoth hunt.
The girl, named Evolet, will be betrothed to the champion of this hunt, and the pair will lead the Yagahl into a new way of life. Unwilling to leave the Yagahl’s future up to this prophecy, the tribe’s chief hunter and bearer of the White Spear leaves on his own to search for another way to save his people. He entrusts the White Spear to his young son D’Leh, and the true purpose of his quest to his friend Tic’Tic. The tribe’s children ridicule D’Leh for what they view as his father’s cowardice, and when he seeks comfort from Evolet, the two begin to fall in love.
Years later, when the mammoths finally return, the adult D’Leh hunts them with his tribe’s men under Tic’Tic’s leadership and kills one by accident, inadvertently winning the White Spear and Evolet. The next day, horse-mounted riders attack the camp. The warlord, taken by Evolet’s beauty, kidnaps her, enslaves the able-bodied, and kills those who fight back, leaving very few survivors. D’Leh, Tic’Tic, Ka’Ren, and a young boy, Baku, set out to rescue their fellow Yagahl as Old Mother follows their journey in spirit. During an attack on the slavers by terror birds, Evolet is recaptured along with Ka’Ren and Baku, and Tic’Tic is wounded. While hunting, D’Leh falls into a pit, where he helps free a trapped saber-tooth tiger, asking it not to eat him before escaping.
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Info & Stats
Director:
Roland Emmerich
Writers:
Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Stars:
Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Marco Khan
Categories:
Adventure, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Budget:
$105,000,000.00
Revenue:
$269,784,201.00
Age: PG13Â |Â Â Duration: 1h 49m
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