The Lion's Mouth Opens

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Lucy Walker directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 28-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 2Released 12 years ago.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4Marianna Palka and Jason Ritter and Bryce Dallas Howard carry the top of the cast.
• 5IMDB entry: tt3402078 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 6Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime

28 min · 0h 28m

Status

Released

Original language

EN

IMDB

The Lion's Mouth Opens (2014) ↗

Also by

Lucy Walker

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  Defying Gravity: The Untold Story of Women's Gymnastics

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• 
  Bring Your Own Brigade

  2021 · ★ 9.0
• 
  Blue's Clues: Blue's Birthday

  1998 · ★ 8.5
• 
  How to Change Your Mind

  2022 · ★ 7.8
• 
  Blue's Clues

  1996 · ★ 7.7
• 
  Waste Land

  2010 · ★ 7.6

Production companies

Who made it

• TR

  Tree Tree Tree Productions

  US

• 

  HBO Documentary Films

  US

Key crew

• Sound RecordistLucy Walker
• ProducerLucy Walker

Release history · US

When it landed

• Theatrical2014-01-18