Roar

In this adventurous comedy, a woman and her boys take a trip to the African jungle to meet her extravagant husband, an ethologist who has lived there for years working to preserve the lives of wild animals.

Through a series of fortuitous circumstances, the couple do not meet, and the newcomers find themselves grappling with a group of lions that terrifies them. It will eventually be discovered that the “ferocious” animals are the ones who habitually “raze” the ethologist's home. Man and beast make friends and begin a friendly coexistence.

A hybrid of fiction and documentary, shot from life and costing eleven years of work (to accustom animals from puppyhood to being with humans) as well as seventeen million dollars.

Tippi Hedren, formerly Hitchcock's favorite actress, is the director's wife and the mother of Melanie Griffith.