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Beautiful imagery and sharp performances make Wild Tigers a memorable film from first-time director Cam Archer. Read critic reviews

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Logan (Malcolm Stumpf), a 13-year-old outcast, becomes obsessed with Rodeo (Patrick White), an older classmate who lets him tag along on walks through the woods. As his obsession grows, he invents a female persona and makes sexy calls to Rodeo at night, and also raids his mother's closet for wigs and clothing.
  • Genre:
    drama
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Cam Archer
  • Producer:
    Cam Archer
  • Writer:
    Cam Archer
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     limited
  • Release Date (Streaming):
  • Box Office (Gross USA):
    $9.1K
  • Runtime:
  • Production Co:
    Cut and Paste Films

Cast & Crew

Malcolm Stumpf
Logan
Patrick White
Rodeo
Max Paradise
Joey
Fairuza Balk
Logan's mother
Kim Dickens
Counselor
Tom Gilroy
Principal
Hailey Anne Nelson
Amy Brown
Lisa Hadley
Kelly's mom
Cam Archer
Director
Cam Archer
Writer
Cam Archer
Producer
Gus Van Sant
Executive Producer
Scott Rudin
Executive Producer
Djuna Bel
Executive Producer
Jim Hayes
Executive Producer
Michele Mulroney
Executive Producer
Kieran Mulroney
Executive Producer
Aaron Platt
Cinematographer
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Critic Reviews for Wild Tigers I Have Known

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  • This is lyricism at its most extreme, at once gripping and off-putting because Archer views his characters as if he were gawking at them through the bars of a cage.

    May 1, 2007 | Full Review…

    Ed Gonzalez

    Los Angeles Times

  • [Director] Archer isn't necessarily taking us anywhere new, but his movie's rapture is beautiful inside and out.

    April 13, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Wesley Morris

    Boston Globe

  • Wild Tigers I Have Known studiously avoids the clichs of the genre. It's also exasperatingly inconclusive. Its dreamy, enigmatic characters often fail to engage.

    April 13, 2007 | Rating: 2/4

    John Hartl

    Seattle Times

  • The filmmaker, Cam Archer, seems to be trying for a mood of hazy self-pity, which he achieves just enough to make you wish he'd get over it.

    March 7, 2007 | Rating: F | Full Review…

    Owen Gleiberman

    Entertainment Weekly

  • While there's something admirable in [director] Archer's attempt at making an ambient song of the self out of the protagonist's search for sexual identity (along with some heavily metaphorical mountain-lion attacks), the result is empty.

    March 3, 2007 | Rating: 2/6 | Full Review…

    Joshua Rothkopf

    Time Out

  • Young writer-director Cam Archer uses disjointed imagery, textures and clashing sound to create something seamlessly odd and poignantly pubescent.

    March 1, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4

    John Anderson

    Newsday
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