Main Cast: Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, F. Murray Abraham, Carol Kane, James Coburn
Release Year: 1999
Country: US
Run Time: 180 minutes
MPAA Rating: NR
Plot
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 laborer 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, All Movie Guide
Mark Bazeley - Shem; Jonathan Cake - Japheth; Alexis Denisof - Ham; Emily Mortimer - Esther; Sydney Poitier - Ruth; Sonya Walger - Miriam
Credit
Lynn Kressel - Casting, Joyce Nettles - Casting, Maura Fay - Casting, Marion Boyce - Costume Designer, John Irvin - Director, Ian Crafford - Editor, Robert Halmi, Sr. - Executive Producer, Paul Grabowsky - Composer (Music Score), Leslie Binns - Production Designer, Michael Molloy - Cinematographer, Stephen Jones - Producer, Steve Burgess - Sound/Sound Designer, Ernest D. Farino - Special Effects Supervisor, Peter Barnes - Screenwriter
Noah's Ark is a 1999film directed by John Irvin and starring John Voight and Mary Steenburgen. The film, as many other related film and television projects, re-tells the Biblical story of Noah's Ark from the Book of Genesis. It was initially televised in the United States in three episodes of approximately 60 minutes each (178 minutes combined running time) and, that same year, was also televised in Canada, Germany and Portugal, among other countries.
The Malaysian government banned the film from being televised in the country due to Noah's status as a prophet of Islam and the country's laws which forbid any depiction of prophets in television or print.
