On the occasion of International Workers’ Day, which is commemorated on May 1, we at 3Love would like to remember six films that show us the lives of people who work caring for and protecting animals and the environment.
- “Gorillas in the Mist”. Year: 1988. Director: Michael Apted. This drama inspired by real events narrates the journey of Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver), who arrives in Africa to carry out a census of a species in danger of extinction: the mountain gorilla. She soon becomes fascinated by the life of these animals, with whom she establishes a relationship of respect and affection. In her efforts to protect this species, Dr. Fossey has serious problems with the authorities and poachers, who sell the young gorillas to zoos and kill the adult gorillas.
- “The Truth About Cats & Dogs”. Year: 1996. Director: Michael Lehmann. This romantic comedy is about Abby (Janeane Garofalo), a successful veterinarian and radio host who has a show about animals. Although she is a sweet and intelligent woman, she is self-conscious about her physique, so when Brian (Ben Chaplin), a guy she met through a call to her show, proposes that they meet, Abby asks her neighbor Noelle (Uma Thurman), who is a model, to impersonate her.
- “Doctor Dolittle”. Year: 1998. Director: Betty Thomas. This comedy tells the story of John Dolittle (Eddie Murphy), a peculiar veterinarian who has the gift of listening to animals and communicating with them. As his practice overflows with animals of all kinds, his colleagues think John has gone mad.
- “50 First Dates”. Year: 2004. Director: Peter Segal. In this romantic comedy, Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) is a marine biologist who lives in Hawaii and whose closest friends include Willy, an African penguin, and Jocko, a walrus. One morning he meets Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore), an art teacher, in a coffee shop. They strike up a relationship, but Henry discovers that Lucy suffers from a variant of amnesia, the result of an accident a year earlier, and is unable to convert short-term memory into long-term memory.
- “An Inconvenient Truth”. Year: 2006. Director: Davis Guggenheim. This documentary shows the devastating effects of climate change. The writer and president of the Alliance for Climate Protection, Al Gore, presents a convincing and worrying portrait of the situation of planet Earth, which is threatened by the global warming caused by CO2 emissions caused by man’s actions.
- “Dark Waters”. Year: 2019. Director: Todd Haynes. This powerful drama based on real events tells the story of a persevering lawyer (Mark Ruffalo), who discovers how a chemical company produces environmental pollution that causes an increasing number of deaths and illnesses. In the process, he risks his future, his job and even his own family to bring the truth to light.
