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Noah's Ark

  • TV Mini Series
  • 1999
  • Unrated
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
3.7/10
2.2K
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Jon Voight and Mary Steenburgen in Noah's Ark (1999)
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Adaptation of the Biblical stories of Noah and Lot and how God destroyed the world due to the wickedness of mankind.Adaptation of the Biblical stories of Noah and Lot and how God destroyed the world due to the wickedness of mankind.Adaptation of the Biblical stories of Noah and Lot and how God destroyed the world due to the wickedness of mankind.

  • Stars
    • Jon Voight
    • Mary Steenburgen
    • F. Murray Abraham
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.7/10
    2.2K
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    • Stars
      • Jon Voight
      • Mary Steenburgen
      • F. Murray Abraham
    • 102User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations total

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    Jon Voight
    Jon Voight
    • Noah
    • 1999
    Mary Steenburgen
    Mary Steenburgen
    • Naamah
    • 1999
    F. Murray Abraham
    F. Murray Abraham
    • Lot
    • 1999
    Carol Kane
    Carol Kane
    • Sarah
    • 1999
    Mark Bazeley
    Mark Bazeley
    • Shem
    • 1999
    Jonathan Cake
    Jonathan Cake
    • Japhet
    • 1999
    Alexis Denisof
    Alexis Denisof
    • Ham
    • 1999
    Emily Mortimer
    Emily Mortimer
    • Esther
    • 1999
    Sydney Tamiia Poitier
    Sydney Tamiia Poitier
    • Ruth
    • 1999
    Sonya Walger
    Sonya Walger
    • Miriam
    • 1999
    James Coburn
    James Coburn
    • The 'Peddler'
    • 1999
    Max Phipps
    Max Phipps
    • Jezer
    • 1999
    Joseph Spano
    • Micah
    • 1999
    Terry Norris
    Terry Norris
    • High Priest
    • 1999
    Jonathan Biggins
    Jonathan Biggins
    • First Priest
    • 1999
    Michael Sheridan
    • Second priest
    • 1999
    Robert Essex
    • Old Zur
    • 1999
    Paul Bertram
    • Joel
    • 1999
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    Yanikk

    What a mockery of the Word this movie is!!!!!

    With all of the advertising, I thought this movie would be something that my child and I could watch and experience the glory of God on film, such as with "The Ten Commandments" and "Prince of Egypt". Yet, as I sat down and began to view this...... motion picture, I had to put my four-year old daughter in another room so I could prevent Peter Barnes and NBC from tearing down what God is building up.

    I could not believe the way this film portrayed the historical first act of God's anger against mankind. The ONLY correct things in this..... motion picture was the name of the main character, and the kind of water vessel that was built. In the Word (the BIBLE), Noah's wife has no name, his sons are MARRIED to those women, it rained FORTY days (not one, and they lounged on a 'deck' for 39), there was no deck and no flag on the Ark, the water took FIVE MONTHS to recede, and there were NO other survivors but the eight people on the Ark. Oh, and by the way, Noah did not closed the door on the Ark - God did.

    At the beginning of the movie, I believe there was a caption that said that the story was conformed to fit into todays' society. My God, this last day we live in needs the true and unadulterated Word of God more than ever before!! The devil himself was behind this project, and he used Peter Barnes to down-size a very pertinent part of end-time prophecy. In this film, it leads people to believe that God tolerates outright sin, and that is a lie. Shackers, alcoholics, murderers, and fornicators did not dwell on the ark, neither did INSANITY. It was also made to appear as if Noah's conscience was speaking in this film instead of the voice of God. The Creator of the Heavens and the Earth is NOT a punk, unlike His adversary.

    So, the next time the decision is made to bring the Bible to the box office, please READ it first.
    2Hitchcoc

    Sink It

    I now know what eternity would be like. This incredible mess occupied four hours I will never get back. My kids wanted to watch it. They liked the animals. I am no Old Testament scholar, but the way the script played fast and loose with the details, was really disappointing. I'm sure all of us remember Lot! He's the guy who left the city of Sodom with his wife. She looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. I never realized he kept her finger in a jar after that. I also didn't know that he later became a pirate and tried to board the ark. If Noah had gone up the mountain to get the Ten Commandments, I wouldn't have been surprised. You can imagine a screenwriter, trying to adapt about two Bible chapters into a four hour mini-series. Still, with imagination and effort, it could have worked. The characters are ridiculous. This has got to be the lowest that Mary Steenbergen has gone. Her character is a mawkish idiot, spouting 1960's June Cleaver dialogue. Noah, played by John Voight, is a buffoon, and then they have these three sons who shovel dung and complain. Except for Japhet, who is the artist. He sits around and ponders. One of them develops a ventriloquist act and talks to an orange for about an hour. The animals are superimposed using computer graphics but not very well. I know it is a mini-series, but visually it is awful.

    Most of the film involves the Noah family sitting around being bored. There is this thing about not putting a rudder on the boat so they are floating around, as if they knew where they were going anyway. The Lord was my favorite. He had this silly conversational voice, somewhat indecisive and flippant, sort of like George Burns. The scene where the whole family goes temporarily insane is when I finally gave up. I am as open minded as the next person, but I'd like to hear some sort of justification for this mess. Was it entirely tongue in cheek? Did I miss the whole point because no-one was supposed to be serious. Oh, well, I am interested to see other comments about this thing.
    CHARLES-58

    Accuracy questioned...

    > The following is a copy I wrote to NBC.com on Sunday evening: > Re: Noah's Ark: > "We're watching Part I. This script has Noah engaging in a dialog with God > about not finding ten righteous people in Sodom. This event occurred in > Genesis 18:32, over 300 years AFTER Noah's death and was between ABRAHAM and > God, NOT Noah and God. Ham also made a statement referring to God's laws; > humankind wasn't aware of living by God's laws until Moses was given the law > on Mt. Sinai 1,111 years AFTER Ham was, as he looks to be in this movie, > about 10 years old. If the intention of this movie by Hollywood script > writer's and directors was to seriously alter the facts, so far they have > done a tremendous job. My ten year old daughter, who knows the Bible, is > sitting here watching this, and she is totally confused." As an added > comment, after I sent the original e mail, the movie shows the remaining > material for the ark appearing one morning...all structural lumber. I was > surprised that Norm Abram, didn't show up to help with the construction and > Bob Vila to try to do whatever he does... > Come on folks, what are you doing? >
    grandpa-5

    This was an incredibly stupid waste of time!

    After struggling for an hour and 45 minutes (including many commercials,) I concluded that this theological hodge-podge coupled with "B" movie Hollywood "glitz" was insulting my intelligence, plain inane, and boring. Jon Voight was much more exciting in Midnight Cowboy, Coming Home and Deliverance.

    I hope we have seen the last of this one and the producers will not waste their time producing a video for sale and rent.

    I must admit that the animal computer simulations were extremely well done and thoroughly enjoyed by my four year old grandson!
    K. Canon

    Beautiful, Breathtaking and Spectacular...

    ...are words that describe GOOD films like "The Ten Commandments", "Elizabeth" and "The Odyssey" rather than this terrible excuse of a mini-series. When NBC was advertising this "gripping" television movie, I was convinced that this movie was going to be good. I was comparing it to "The Odyssey" which was another on-sea epic. But that was the only similarity. "The Odyssey" was an excellent, captivating, ACCURATE true-to-the-real-story film. "Noah's Ark" was probably the worst piece of garbage that has come out of my t.v. What an insult to the Catholic faith! If you want a movie, that is faithful to the its real story, rent "The Odyssey" and "The Mission". You want to see a better performance out of Alexis Denisof? Watch "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" his role as the uptight Wesley Wyndham-Pryce suits him better than this the feeble character he played here. And you want to see an excellent mini-series this year? Watch the CBS movie "Joan of Arc". Now THAT was a good movie.

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    • Trivia
      F. Murray Abraham, who played a supporting role, played Noah in Muppets from Space (1999).
    • Goofs
      Noah and Naamah speak with American accents, but their three sons speak with British accents. Similar dichotomies happen among some of the other families depicted.
    • Quotes

      High Priest: I forget what we're doing tonight.

      First Priest: You're sacrificing a virgin to the rain god Mole.

      High Priest: What for?

      Second priest: Rain, what else? Rain.

      [to second priest]

      Second priest: He's passed it.

      First Priest: We'll have to elect ourselves a new one.

      High Priest: Rain? Oh, yes, of course. Of course, rain. Isn't that little Ruth? Why are we sacrificing her?

      First Priest: She's the only virgin we could find on such short notice.

      Second priest: If we had more time...

      First Priest: Even then it wouldn't be easy. They're very hard to find.

      High Priest: But I've known little Ruth since she was knee-high to a cricket.

      Second priest: We've sacrificed chickens, sheep, and bulls and they didn't work.

    • Crazy credits
      "For dramatic effect, we have taken poetic license with some of the events of the mighty epic of Noah and the Flood..."
    • Alternate versions
      In Germany, there are two different versions of the first part. One of them is a cut-version.
    • Connections
      Featured in Saturday Night Live: Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines (1999)

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    • Release date
      • May 2, 1999 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • RHI Entertainment
      • RHI-TV
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • El arca de Noé
    • Filming locations
      • Australia
    • Production companies
      • Babelsberg International Film Produktion
      • Hallmark Entertainment
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 29m(89 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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