Although Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) is considered a laughable Razzie type of experience, I can remember seeing this on the VHS shelf back when I was a kid before I rented it as a teenager for the first time. I had read that this was sort of follows Quest of Fire (a film I haven't seen as of yet; this on my ever growing list of 80s films I still need to see before I die) in taking a page out of its book regarding filming a prehistoric human tribe, speaking in a type of language different than what we speak today, and watching them progress through living experiences. Daryl Hannah is one of those actresses in the 80s I followed. I plan to re-evaluate her work, actually. Legal Eagles, Reckless, Splash, and Clan are four films I anxiously look forward to watching her in again. Clan is perhaps her most challenging because her Ayla is an orphaned girl, taken in by a family and raised as their own. But there's this sense that she's an adventurous spirit who has another life awaiting her elsewhere. It is as if this life up until her age after the child experiences as a young adult was only a detour until she looked out into the great unknown and led herself away from the security of her own clan for something else yet unseen.
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