A student-teacher relationship goes way beyond the classroom, including pre-historic times.
Direction
Bold choice to include cavemen in a priest drama.
Acting
Sam Bottoms commits to chaos with unsettling sincerity.
Director
William Olsen
Sam Bottoms
Father Michael McCarren
Renée Coleman
September Lane
Edward Binns
Monsignor Frank Barrett
Dick Cavett
Himself
Page Hannah
Annie
Don Harvey
Nathan
Robert Lansing
C.A. Thomas
Holt McCallany
Jay
Tom Nowicki
Basketball Player #1
Robert Jayne
Basketball Player #3 (as Robert Jacoby)
Sherrie Rose
First Tribe Member
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was William Olsen's only feature film; he vanished from Hollywood like his characters vanished into prehistory.
Released during the real-life Catholic Church abuse scandals, its romantic framing of clergy-student relationships aged like milk in a sauna.
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