The Tribe (1998)
- Directed by
- Stephen Poliakoff
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A property developer tries to evict a strange group living in a building but gets drawn into their world. Their bizarre rituals and risky relationships slowly change him.
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What happens
The Tribe is a 1998 television film drama written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff and starring Joely Richardson, Jeremy Northam, Trevor Eve, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Anna Friel. Property developer Northam is tasked with evicting a post-modern hippie proto-cult led by Richardson from a building. But they slowly win him over to their dark lifestyle, bizarre rituals, eating habits and dangerous liaisons. The film was made in 1996, but not transmitted until 1998. Music is by Poliakoff regular Adrian Johnston and it carries some of the Polikov trademarks such as photograph studies. Controversial for its nudity and a much discussed ménage à trois sex scene between characters played by Anna Friel (her first work after leaving Brookside), Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Jeremy Northam. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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