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Project Grizzly

  • 1996
  • 1h 12m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
703
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Project Grizzly (1996)
Documentary

A documentary follows a Canadian fellow working on his dream: building a suit of armor so he can observe grizzly bears from a close distance.A documentary follows a Canadian fellow working on his dream: building a suit of armor so he can observe grizzly bears from a close distance.A documentary follows a Canadian fellow working on his dream: building a suit of armor so he can observe grizzly bears from a close distance.

  • Director
    • Peter Lynch
  • Stars
    • Troy Hurtubise
    • Peter Gzowski
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    703
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Peter Lynch
    • Stars
      • Troy Hurtubise
      • Peter Gzowski
    • 14User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    Troy Hurtubise
    • Self
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    • Self (CBC Radio)
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    • Director
      • Peter Lynch
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    6Jeope!

    Man Fall Down. Funny.

    Interested in seeing a kind of half-baked superhero-themed movie? Do Not Be Deceived. Project Grizzly is not about Troy-Man from the Great White North Bay; rather, it is a chilling tale about a normal (?) fellow who's taken his defiance of nature to a level not fit for yourself or your friends. And trust me on that. And while it is hard not to watch Troy get repeatedly whupped by log-catapults and pick-up trucks, or be pushed off the Niagara Escarpment (!) during 'tests' of his bearproof suit, the picture does run on. Ahhh, but wait. You'll be left curiously satisfied by watching it - knowing that your crazy friend Troy from grade school who ate worms, marbles, gravel or what-have-you might just have amounted to something.
    9daveharris_CrackerJacks

    Troy

    It was many years ago I got to get to know Troy. I met him at Cracker Jacks in Lindsay Ontario. I sat and listened to a ton of stories from this man. Troy had just finished writing a book called. White Tape. Even got him to sign it. Great friend and solid man.
    vjacq

    A movie about a man and his quest for nothing.

    After surviving an attack by a grizzly bear, some Canadian yahoo spends the rest of his life trying to design a suit that will . . . help you survive a bear attack.

    We watch the development of his suit, which involves smoking cigarettes and being crazy, until the Canadian government approves it for testing.

    It's a funny movie but not worth much but a few laughs.
    BrownCam

    One of the funniest movies I've ever seen!

    This documentary follows a Canadian bear researcher who builds a bear-proof suit of armour so he can confront a grizzly bear head on and live to tell the tale. This documentary on Troy Hurtubise is nothing short of hilarious! We follow troy through his building and testing of his 'grizzly-proof' suit to his hunt for the angry bear from donut shops and biker bars to the Rocky Mountains. As it's been said here, you have to love this guy, even though he's a little out there!

    'A bear of a movie that had audiences howling with laughter.' - The Toronto Star

    Another fine gem from the National Film Board of Canada.
    8Godstud

    Genius, albeit combined with strangeness

    The movie was funny and brilliant. Here's your everyman trying to make something different and following a dream. The funny thing isn't that he tried to design the suit for Grizzly bears but that after the film he actually redirected his thinking towards a suit designed to protect firefighters. While doing this and discovering his suit wasn't safe unless it was fireproof, he managed to create a compound that MIT professors said couldn't be made. He created a ceramic? compound that he demonstrated in his own unique way. He placed a small brick of it on top of a helmet and had a braizing torch directed on the top of it for 10 minutes (at 5000 degrees). After 10 minutes the temperate had risen barely 10 degrees. A crackpot? no doubt :) But likely a backyard genius too. See it once and remember that not all inventions in history were used in the original purpose that the creator envisioned.

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    • Release date
      • October 3, 1997 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Canada
    • Official site
      • National Film Board of Canada
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Проект гризли
    • Filming locations
      • North Bay, Ontario, Canada
    • Production company
      • National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 12m(72 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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