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The biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood gets a decidedly unusual retelling in this film, produced as a two-part TV movie and first aired on NBC in May 1999. Noah Jon Voight is an ordinary labor... read more read more...er who one day begins receiving messages from God. It seems the Lord has a special assignment for him: since God is planning on destroying the world with a massive flood, he wants Noah to build a giant ark and fill it with one male and one female of each animal on earth. So why Noah of all people? As God tells him, "You fit the bill. Good times, bad times, you believe in me." And why a 500-foot-long ark? "I think big! I made the world in seven days!" Joining Noah on the trip of a lifetime is his wife Naamah (Mary Steenburgen); those not invited along for the ride are F. Murray Abraham as Lot, Carol Kane as his wife Sarah, and James Coburn as a peddler. Some video versions run 140 minutes. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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PG-13, 3 hr.

Directed by: John Irvin

Release Date: August 29, 1999

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DVD Release Date: July 27, 1999

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  • DouglasWCollins
    April 17, 2008
    DouglasWCollins
    Yeah Noah was on the ark and there were other people in thier own little rafts surviving. MEGA-CRAP
  • Jossepi
    December 13, 2007
    Jossepi
    One of the worst movies I've seen, even for Christian like me. Everything in the movie is a huge mixed up of serveral Bible stories combined. I give extra 1/2 star for having some guts to show this on TV. The way this movie is going, it is going straight to hell.
  • terris85017
    July 24, 2010
    terris85017
    (1999 Director: John Irvin) Is it really possible tha Noah in this movie was portrayed by Jon Voight?? Adored James Coburn's performance and the surprising performance by Carol Kane.
  • MetalMario2
    June 29, 2008
    MetalMario2
    A completely inaccurate retelling of the story of Noah and the flood. Apparently, the filmmakers thought that they needed to flesh out the story with out-of-context events from other places in the Old Testament (I'm rather surprised Goliath didn't show up somewhere, actually). Th... read moree destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is here, along with Abraham's nephew Lot, who, in perhaps the most unforgivable bastardization of all, is portrayed as a ruthless, amoral cutthroat. (In the Bible, Lot was the one good inhabitant of Sodom, and God spared him from the destruction of that city.)

    There are a lot of good Biblical epics out there. Don't bother with this misbegotten tripe.

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Widgett Walls
October 14, 2002
Widgett Walls, Needcoffee.com

The answer to the question of how to make God frown.

Emanuel Levy
June 26, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Linda Cook
December 18, 2002
Linda Cook, Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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Dan Jardine
January 1, 2000
Dan Jardine, Apollo Guide

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November 24, 2011
Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed

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