Wild Inside

Name: Wild Inside
Duration: 1 h 36 min

1hr 36m

3.6/5 (263)

1hr 36m
3.6/5 (263)

Flaco, a captive-raised Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped NYC's Central Park Zoo in 2023. The largest owl species worldwide, he'd lived there 13 years since being a… More Details »

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Release Date:

Jul 31, 2026

Runtime:

1hr 36m

Synopsis

Flaco, a captive-raised Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped NYC's Central Park Zoo in 2023. The largest owl species worldwide, he'd lived there 13 years since being a fledgling before gaining fame through his wild adventures.

Moviegoers are saying

This documentary about Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped Central Park Zoo and captured NYC's heart for one magnificent year, divides audiences between those enchanted by the bird's story and those frustrated by the human obsession surrounding it. While viewers universally praise the stunning owl footage and thoughtful direction by Penny Lane, many NYC birders and animal experts wish the film had dug deeper into systemic issues like rodenticide and urban wildlife conservation rather than focusing on the anthropomorphized legend.

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Urban-Wildlife

Bittersweet-Legend

Nature-Documentary

NYC-Story

Conservation-Drama

Anthropomorphic-Critique

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3.6

RATINGS 3 FANS

3.6

Aug 5, 2026

the real New York superhero that can fly isn’t Spider-Man, it’s Flaco — RIP, sweet prince, wish you could have seen your movie projected on a big screen in the park, surrounded by all of your fans

33 Likes

Justin LaLiberty

Aug 2, 2026

NYC can really grind a person down, especially these days, but it also pretty regularly offers reminders that sometimes people don’t suck, too. And being in a roomful of people eager to remember one very special bird, including the filmmaker who put together this warm,…

25 Likes

cinemapoodle

Aug 3, 2026

Full disclosure: My BFF Suzanne Highland appears as one of the lone voices of reason in this doc, empathetic to the plight of Flaco but also being clear-eyed about the how humans have made life so difficult for wild animals in the city. Fuller disclosure: I am a NYC birder…

20 Likes

brcw
Jul 31, 2026

Saw myself??? on the big screen tonight!! I admire Penny Lane’s restraint for not using more of my footage but I do have to laugh that all of my subject matter expertise and hot takes ended up on the cutting room floor. I did get recognized after by someone at my screening…

20 Likes

Andrew

Aug 2, 2026

My best friend is Suzanne the Wild Bird Fund employee at the end, the one who got the call and had to find poisoned, full wingspan, dead Flaco on the concrete inside a building's entirely concrete inner courtyard. Suzanne is the reason I know about this documentary and…

18 Likes

sarahpaol

Aug 11, 2026

a documentary that is half about an owl and half about the most chronically bored people you’ve ever seen. there were approximately 2 and a half people portrayed in this film that had any sense of nuance to their views. i am abstaining from giving a rating here because, to…

6 Likes

maddie7217
Aug 4, 2026

Riveting! Flaco was such a majestic creature and this documentary will leave you with lots to think about.

10 Likes

Mekulin85

Aug 3, 2026

His legs!! Food for thought

9 Likes

sylvia

Aug 5, 2026

I was in New York a lot the year Flaco was free, and I went with my girlfriend and our friends to visit him a bunch of times in central park. Every time we got eyes on him (or he had eyes on us), it was hard not to feel like we were witnessing an intelligent creature…

6 Likes

Nat