Produced and directed by filmmaker Michael Webber, The Elephant In The Living Room documents a hard and sometimes disturbing look at what happens when people decide it’s a good idea to keep wild, “exotic” animals as pets.
Centered around the efforts of one Ohio Public Safety Officer, Tim Harrison, the film explores his life’s mission to not only remove such animals from private owners, but to rehabilitate these animals back to being with others of their kind in a safe and healthy environment, such as a sanctuary.
One such owner is Terry Brumfield, a man who after surviving a truck accident takes refuge from his depression by hand raising 2 African lion cubs – which, by the way, are perfectly legal to own in Ohio and 30 other states in the Us.
Terry, like so many others, starts out raising the lions with the best of intentions and has a deep love for his “pets,...
Centered around the efforts of one Ohio Public Safety Officer, Tim Harrison, the film explores his life’s mission to not only remove such animals from private owners, but to rehabilitate these animals back to being with others of their kind in a safe and healthy environment, such as a sanctuary.
One such owner is Terry Brumfield, a man who after surviving a truck accident takes refuge from his depression by hand raising 2 African lion cubs – which, by the way, are perfectly legal to own in Ohio and 30 other states in the Us.
Terry, like so many others, starts out raising the lions with the best of intentions and has a deep love for his “pets,...
- 4/8/2011
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Elephant in the Living Room is now making its rounds in the theaters. Being one of the first ones to see this award winning documentary over a month ago I must say it's one of the best I've seen and all exotic or domestic animal owners/lovers should take notice!
Director Michael Webber shot this following around Tim Harrison who goes all over the country rescuing animals and helping out of control situations concerning the naimlas nad their owners. You see what a "day in the life" is like for Harrison as we get to witness first hand, the good and the bad that goes along owning these pets.
We get to watch Harrison deal with gators, lots of snakes (I don't like snakes!) and an African lion and its owner, Terry Brumfield, who is dealing with the reality that he might have to give his exotic pets up.
Director Michael Webber shot this following around Tim Harrison who goes all over the country rescuing animals and helping out of control situations concerning the naimlas nad their owners. You see what a "day in the life" is like for Harrison as we get to witness first hand, the good and the bad that goes along owning these pets.
We get to watch Harrison deal with gators, lots of snakes (I don't like snakes!) and an African lion and its owner, Terry Brumfield, who is dealing with the reality that he might have to give his exotic pets up.
- 4/3/2011
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
The Elephant in the Living Room begins with its heroic subject Tim Harrison, a police officer turned animal expert in Ohio, cruising in his patrol car, rattling off his accomplishments and experiences in dealing with exotic animals on the loose in America to a passenger seat cam, intercut with local news reports of these crazy animal attacks. At that stage, it’s hard to know what’s special about this feature documentary on exotic animal ownership in the Us that sets it apart from an Animal Planet program (which Tim Harrison has been on before—not to mention Discovery, National geographic, etc.). Several scenes in, we find out.
An ER doctor, looking annoyed from having to save the lives of many dumb bastards who were nearly killed by their own dangerous pets over the years, preaches directly through the screen to the idle Americans who have had the wrong idea...
An ER doctor, looking annoyed from having to save the lives of many dumb bastards who were nearly killed by their own dangerous pets over the years, preaches directly through the screen to the idle Americans who have had the wrong idea...
- 4/2/2011
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Nothing makes a better documentary subject than crazy. Whether they're about socialite shut-ins or deranged cult leaders or just some guy who decides to eat nothing but fast food for a month, documentaries are a great home for the insane. Best of all is when a documentary invites us inside the madness to experience it for ourselves, then forces to reconsider whether that perspective is really all that crazy after all. "The Elephant in the Living Room," about the danger, and also the appeal, of keeping wild animals as pets, is such a documentary.
Generally, I'm of the opinion that anyone who willingly keeps a deadly animal in their home is kind of nuts. And if said animal escapes and kills them, that's not a tragedy; that's fodder for The Darwin Awards. But sometimes these animals get loose and harm others, and that is a tragedy, one that's happening with...
Generally, I'm of the opinion that anyone who willingly keeps a deadly animal in their home is kind of nuts. And if said animal escapes and kills them, that's not a tragedy; that's fodder for The Darwin Awards. But sometimes these animals get loose and harm others, and that is a tragedy, one that's happening with...
- 3/30/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
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