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As young Sam Gribley runs away he learns about nature.
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonAn absolutely dreadful film that will appeal only to grown-ups who saw it when it was new. |
| Common Sense MediaGrace MontgomeryBook-based movie has quiet charm, some intense scenes. |
| New York TimesHoward ThompsonA slender, honest study of a boy learning to be a man his own way. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe homage to nature pic appeals to youngsters and boy adventurers, but left me yearning for a safer story for a 13-year-old boy. |
| User ReviewAyleenThe child packs up and leaves because he is fed up with artificial, high-rise housing and roughs it. He is the American version of Dikon. Travelers come and talk with him. Sing with him. You will cry at this rejection of machinery and longing for nature lost. |
| User ReviewCourtney WHeartwarming story for the whole family, it teaches us to enjoy nature and its gifts but also to respect it. |
| User ReviewLaura BI remember watching this movie when I was younger with my family and falling in love with it. It's a movie that I'll never forget, great for all ages. Based on the age old story of a boy becoming a man but with a new take. Full of adventure that will thrill your young children and amuse yourself and your teens. |
| User ReviewMonique-Elise DThis mis-understood masterwork has long been seen as a bad adaption of the Jean Craighead George's novel. This misunderstanding has long plagued the work, miring critical appraisal to a simply a forgettable failure. By setting the film in Canada rather than Upstate New York James B. Clark has created a clear satire of the pioneering isolationist American Ideal which Sam Gribley typifies. In the fatalist universe of the Canadian wilderness, Sam's quest to survive alone in the forest fails based on Nothop Frye's concept of the Garrison Mentality . A Canadian Classic in the tradition of Roughing it in the Bush this film is a must-see! |
| User ReviewMichael TVery well done adaptation, we enjoyed it! |
| User ReviewSarah PThe book was way better. the movie, not so good. |