Review: Roar
Hank (Noel Marshall) loves wild animals so much that he’s moved away from his family to live in Africa in a home inhabited by dozens and dozens of lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs etc. With plenty of other wild animals just outside as well. When his family (played by Marshall’s real-life sons, as well as his then-wife Tippi Hedren and her daughter Melanie Griffith) come for a visit from America, let’s just say that the animals aren’t quite welcoming to the interlopers. And they don’t seem to much like Hank either. Kyalo Mativo plays a native friend of Hank’s who seems to be the only character in the film with enough smarts to be wary of the beasts before they even attack. 1981 unofficial family vacation footage from director/producer/star/co-writer/idiot/arsehole Noel Marshall is now largely forgotten. Even those who do know about it only do so for the non-fictional story of its making, not for it’s fictional movie plot. For something that doesn’t seem to have had a lot of mains