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Alaska Details

1996 Certificate PG
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Above-average family film. Benedict plays the pilot dad who moves his two kids to Alaska after the death of their mom. When the father's plane crashes and he is given up for dead, the son overcomes his anger about the move and sets off with his sister to find him in the wilderness. Along the way, they are befriended by the .. Read more

Starring Thora Birch, Vincent Kartheiser, Dirk Benedict, Charlton Heston
Director Fraser Clarke Heston
Genres Family

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Alaska

Above-average family film. Benedict plays the pilot dad who moves his two kids to Alaska after the death of their mom. When the father's plane crashes and he is given up for dead, the son overcomes his anger about the move and sets off with his sister to find him in the wilderness. Along the way, they are befriended by the polar bear who is being pursued by a poacher, played with great humor and depravity by director Fraser's dad Charlton.

Starring Thora Birch, Vincent Kartheiser, Dirk Benedict, Charlton Heston, Duncan Fraser, Gordon Tootoosis, Ben Cardinal
Director Fraser Clarke Heston
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Family
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: not available
Production year: 1996
Format DVD
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  • 76 out of 81 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    superb

    my 9 year old daughter loved this film. Jake Barnes played by Dirk Benedict crashes his Piker Cub aeroplane, during a storm around Devil's Thumb in the Alaskan wilderness. He is a former airline pilot, now delivering toilet paper across the mountains, after moving to Alaska with his children after the death of his wife.

    His two children, Jessie played by Thora Birch from Hocus Pocus fame, and Sean played by Vincent Kartheiser from Angel, decide to find him themselves, when it seems that the search and rescue teams, are going to give him up for dead.

    during their journey in the Alaskan wilderness, they rescue a captured bear cub earning its gratitude, and the poacher's wrath. Between the poachers and coping with nature there are some harrowing moments in this film.

    Jake, the children's father, after the crash, is stuck on a treacherous cliff with a broken leg and no radio, he is desperate to be saved, but little does he know that his children are on their way.

    Sean and Jessie have to kayak, hike, canoe, and abseil their way, over many lush and snowy miles to save their dad.

    Younger kids like my daughter, will enjoy the antics of Cubby, the baby polar bear, who befriends the youthful trekkers, and eventually leads them to their father.

    this film is well worth renting out.

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