Fierce People (2005) on Netflix
Finn Earl dreams of studying the Fierce People in South America with the father he has never met. After Finn's arrest, his mother Liz relocates them to billionaire Ogden C. Osbourne's estate.
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Plot summary
Sixteen-year-old Finn Earl lives with his mother Liz in a Lower East Side apartment, where she works as a massage therapist and fights her drug addiction. Finn wants to spend his summer in South America with the anthropologist father he has never met, studying the tribe known as the Fierce People. Those plans end when he is arrested while buying drugs for Liz. Wanting to rebuild their lives, Liz takes up an offer to stay in a guesthouse on the country estate of Ogden C. Osbourne, the billionaire who was once her client. In that wealthy circle Finn falls for Osbourne's granddaughter, Maya Langley, and befriends her older brother, Bryce, while Liz tries to win back her son's trust.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fierce People (2005)
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- The film Fierce People comes from a novel by Dirk Wittenborn, who based it on his own upbringing in a modest home and his sense of being an outsider around wealthy people in an upper-crust New Jersey enclave.
