It’s the heartfelt movie about what happens when an orphaned lion and wolf cub end up growing up together. Don’t worry (spoiler alert) it has a happy ending.
Alma, a music student with dreams of playing in the LA philharmonic, finds herself returning to her grandfather’s island. It was only meant to be a short visit until she helps a she wolf who is caught in a net, finds a helpless lion cub in the woods, and welcomes back the she wolf when she returns with her own cub. Now Alma must decide how far she is welling to go to protect these two unlikely bonded brothers from the people that wish to separate them.
It’s also a story about the importance of conservation as two important ethical topics are raised in this powerful film of brotherly love. One is the topic of just how much we should support circus’ especially in the midst of the alleged animal abuse that is said to go on with some of the more powerful animals. The other is on capturing and holding those animals for the purpose of trying to help repopulate the world of a specific breed. Both are important topics and I feel the movie does a fair job of exploring these topics and in the end leaving it up to the audience to make their decision.
The film is in part based on a real life lion and wolf cub in Canada as it highlighted that the two are still running free in the Canadian Wilderness.
All in all the film, at 100 minutes run time, The Lion and the Wolf will bring audiences into the beauty and wilderness of Canadian landscape. The Lion and the Wolf came out in theaters February 4 and is currently playing in one near you.