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Year One
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
2009 · Directed by Harold Ramis · 97 min · Comedy · Adventure · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
Meet your ancestors.
Plot
Zed is a disillusioned hunter in a primitive Stone Age tribe, who yearns for a purpose. When the tribe learn he has eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, hunter Marlak and the shaman banish him. Oh, a timid gatherer, reluctantly joins Zed on a journey to discover what the world has to offer, after Zed accidentally burns down the village.
The duo encounter Cain and Abel in the Copper Age. Cain kills Abel with a boulder in an act of rage and tells Zed and Oh that they must escape with him or else they will be accused of killing Abel.
Zed and Oh find out their love interests, Maya and Eema, from their tribe have been captured and sold into slavery. Trying to buy the girls' freedom, they end up being sold as slaves themselves, as Cain had been wanting to rid himself of the murder's witnesses. Whilst in transport, the slave caravan containing Oh, Zed, Maya, Eema and others from their tribe is attacked and overpowered by Sodomites. Zed and Oh escape and hide in the desert but lose track of the now Sodomite-led slave caravan.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Gene Stupnitsky, Harold Ramis, Lee Eisenberg
- Cinematography: Alar Kivilo
- Edited by: Craig Herring, Steve Welch
- Music: Theodore Shapiro
- Production design: Jefferson Sage
- Produced by: Judd Apatow, Clayton Townsend, Harold Ramis
Cast
- Jack Black as Zed
- Michael Cera as Oh
- Oliver Platt as High Priest
- David Cross as Cain
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Isaac
- Vinnie Jones as Sargon
- Hank Azaria as Abraham
- Juno Temple as Eema
- Olivia Wilde as Princess Inanna
- June Diane Raphael as Maya
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Columbia Pictures, Apatow Productions, Ocean Pictures
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $62,357,900
- Themes: temple, circumcision, slavery, stone age, prehistory, cavemen, duringcreditsstinger, prehistoric man
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