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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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10.23.03
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A ten-year-old boy is found living wild in the forests of the Northwest, amongst the wolves. He's captured and brought to a University where he's raised by one of the professors, who he looks upon as a surrogate father. Ten years later he's a fairly well adjusted adult, who has even taken some University classes. But he's emotionally bound to the people and place he now knows-and doesn't want to leave. But when the professor is hit by a car and Lucan (Kevin Brophy) comes to visit-he tells him that he must go on his own and try to find his real parents (something he knows Lucan always wanted to do). Not only has funding been cut off for the professor's research on 'the wolf boy', there are some members of the research facility who want to keep him in a cage like an animal. So LUCAN leaves for the city-and gets a job on a construction site. There's a lot of shadey deals going on there-and the foreman is this SOB who doesn't like him. Stockard Channing portrays the owner's (Ned Beatty) daughter who is torn between marrying that asshole foreman or not-and Lucan's there to give his own sort of basic guidance. Whenever Lucan gets angry he reverts to his animal instincts and his eyes turn red.This was a pilot to a short-lived series, which reminded me a lot of THE FUGITIVE and THE HULK series. The movie holds up the test of time surprisingly well.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - 0 votes cast total
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