Lost in the Barrens

Starring:Nicholas Shields (II), Evan Adams, Lee J. Campbell, Graham Greene (II), Marianne Jones, Victor Cowie, Paul Grau, Harry Nelken, Ken Babb, Jeff Madden, Brian Richardson (III), Fred Robinson (III), Eric Robinson (II), Adam Beach, Louie Camerone, Bart the Bear
Director: Michael J.F. Scott
Studio: Bonneville Ent.
Product Type: DVD

Description

"Your strength and your courage will be shown in the good works that you do for others." When the trust fund keeping orphaned Jamie in his upper-class boarding school runs out, he must cross the continent to live with his Uncle Angus, a fur trapper, in the Canadian wilderness. Disobeying his father, Awasis, a native boy, and Jamie explore the breathtaking territory on their own. A careless accident makes the unlikely pair realize that their disobedience could cost them their lives. A loyal friendship is sparked as they begin to their vast cultural differences in a different light. But will that light burn brightly enough to lead them safely home?

Customer Reviews:

One of the worst movies ever made.......2007-05-19

My mom bought this movie for my brother and me when we were in high school. It featured Hollywood Native American favorite Graham Greene, so she figured we might like it. What we got were some of the best laughs ever elicited from a bad movie. The coming of age ceremony was the best, and to this day my brother and I still make fun of the line, "With the blessings of the spirits, you are now a man." Maybe kids 8 and under haven't fully developed a sense of irony and sarcasm to realize what a gem of a bad movie this truly is, but anyone in their teenage years will appreciate it for a true stinker to be ridiculed after the manner of Battlefield Earth.

teaches many good values.......2006-11-11

My 10 and 8 year old sons really enjoyed it, as did I. It teaches many good values, such as forgiveness, loyalty, courage, respect. In reference to guns, the wise uncle explains that guns are tools and to be respected, which I found refreshing in this age of either irrational fear of guns or extreme gun violence in movies.

It was a little over-the-top on indian religion. It showed a deer coming after the indian boy prayed to its spirit and allowing itself to be killed for food. As a Christian parent I had the opportunity to explain differences in beliefs and that I imagine that indians have to hunt their food the same as everyone else.

A fine adventure for older boys, young adults.......2005-01-10

Jamie's parents died in a car accident and, under a trust fund, he has grown up at a fine boarding school. He has thrived there, and is both successful and well-liked. But, the trust fund is depleted, and Jamie most go West to live with his Uncle Angus, a fur-trapper living in the wilderness of Northwestern Canada. Thus begins a great adventure, featuring themes of coming-of-age, cultural adaptation, tolerance and understanding of diversity, survival through cooperation, friendship, and accepting responsibility. Many of these themes emerge when Jamie befriends Awassis, a Native American teen who had tried living the White Man's society in Eastern Canada. Together, they break some rules, go on a trip together that almost costs them their lives, find a historical treasure, and grow up.

The acting is good, the scenery is harshly beautiful, the story is good, and there is enough complexity to attract and keep viewers' interest. The first quarter of the movie is a bit slow-paced, but the rest of the film makes the waiting worth it.

I Want the Video.......2004-10-01

Lost in the Barrens is my favorite book of all time. I am a sixth grade teacher in Idaho and I read Lost in the Barrens to every class. They all love it and remember the story for years. I would love to purchase the video but it has a different title. Please help me if you can.

Michael Clifford
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lost in the barrens.......2004-09-13

Hi,i gave this 5 stars,because it is a good interesting movie that doesent use swear words or have violence,so what does it then have? answer it has a very interesting plot ,and you might just get a warm fuzzy happy feeling, one thing is for shure by the time the adventure is over you will be thankfull to have a warm house to be in ,i always snuggle in a cozy quilt when i watch it,i also am proud of the movie because it was based in canada, and made in Canada,as i also live in canada,i enjoyed it because in canada we don't make alot of movies. The movie has a good plot,and is very educational and was made from a classic novel,and when i went to school we even got to watch it in english class ,it also shows a lot of pretty canadian wilderness. the story takes place in the 1940's or so ,in the most northern part of manitoba canada ,which we call the barren's, because there is a lot of tundra(flat land with yellow dead grass) and tree's for shelter are very few ,and in the winter it get's deadly cold at times it could get -40 degree's celcious and you would die if you were lost in the barrens in the winter without survival skills in very cold weather,and also with very few tree's to find to make shelter .in the beginning of this movie the young boy(jamie) lives in toronto in a expensive upper class school that also is his home because he had no parents because they died in a car crash,when he was a young boy,and when he is a teenager his money his parents left him to pay to live in the fancy school runs out,so he has no choice but to go live with his only remaining relitive,which is his uncle that lives in manitoba,which he has never met before, in the remote wilderness and the uncle makes a living selling animal fur and makes canoe's and doesent socilize with any outside public his only friends before his nephue arived were the local native's, so once the boy arives at his uncles cabin,he is introduced to a teenaged native boy his same age,called awosis which is the son of the uncles good native friend,the young native boy at first despises jamie but they have to get over thier stubborness when they get lost up river and seperated from the rest of thier group while they were suposed to be waiting for the rest of the hunting party that had to go further into the barrens to find deer to eat for the winter,but end up sneeking away from thier camp to explore the river wilderness but end up in big trrouble when they loose thier canoe and get lost in the barrens with few provisions,and almost starve and freeze to death,and it just keeps getting more interesting from that point which i will leave to you to watch so i dont give away the ending,this movie shows no violence and is educational and exciting,it's a great family movie for kids or grown up's also,it was made onto dvd by some kind of family oriented company. the dvd is not to expensive ,so if like wilderness adventures give this movie a try what have you got to loose, i am almost certain you will love it as much as i did and i still watch it all of the time. the story is by farley mowit.

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