Alaska - The trail of the polar bear
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Alaska - The trail of the polar bear |
| Original title | Alaska |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fraser Clarke Heston |
| script |
Andy Burg , Scott Myers |
| production |
Andy Burg , Carol Fuchs |
| music | Reg Powell |
| camera | Tony Westman |
| cut | Rob Kobrin |
| occupation | |
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Alaska - The Trail of the Polar Bear is a 1996 American adventure film and directed by Fraser Clarke Heston . His father, Charlton Heston , played a supporting role in the film.
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After their mother dies, siblings Jessie and Sean have to live with their father, Jake Barnes, in the desert of Alaska . Especially Sean finds it difficult to accept his new life. Jake is seldom home due to work, as he uses his propeller plane to transport mail and light cargo. One day he gets another job in the evening. Jake uses the radio to tell his daughter where he flew from, when he left this place and gives her his flight speed. Jessie calculated to the Devils Thumb (devil's thumb) , a 2,777 m high mountain in the Boundary Ranges , must have happened. Meanwhile, Jake is flying straight into a storm front.
On the radio, the siblings have to overhear Jake losing control of the plane during the flight and crashing in the wilderness. Although everyone in the village assumes they are dead and rescue efforts are unsuccessful, the siblings go on an adventurous journey in search of their father. Your journey begins by kayaking along the Alaskan coast. Not long after they set out, they free a small polar bear from a coastal poaching camp, which two poachers wanted to sell after they killed the animal's mother. The polar bear accompanies them on their way inland, where they have to climb some passes and mountains and leave valleys and rivers behind them.
During their trip in a canoe that the siblings found in a hut, they run into dangerous rapids on a raging mountain river and tumble down a waterfall, both of them falling into the water. Jessie comes to the bank over a log over the river, and Sean is later dragged out of the water by a local man, exhausted. After a night in the tent, the young people continue their search for their father. The poachers, who desperately want the polar bears back, remain on their heels. The bear, which they have since called “Flocke”, is stunned by the poachers from a helicopter and then taken away, but can later escape.
In fact, Sean and Jessie find their father, injured in the crash, who is staying on a rock face in the plane wreck. In a breakneck abseil they manage to rescue the injured person. "Flocke" is of great help to them. Shortly thereafter, everyone is found by a colleague Jakes, who was looking for Jessie and Sean with another helicopter. The polar bear "Flocke" regains its freedom and joins a polar bear family. The friendship with the bear and the experiences during the adventurous search for the father help that Sean begins to accept his new life in Alaska.
Reviews
James Berardinelli praised the camera work on movie-reviews.colossus.net and criticized the poor cast of the roles.
artechock thinks that the plot and the actors are only worth visiting the film to a limited extent, "rather the great landscape (the Alaskan tourism office sponsored the film)," but "that this too is a little neglected".
Production and Background
The film, which scores with overwhelming landscape shots, also contains the message that nature and the animals living in it must be protected under all circumstances.
The film was shot between July 10 and October 3, 1995. It was shot in Denali National Park in Alaska , Blackcomb Glacier Provincial Park and Bugaboo Provincial Park, as well as in Purcell Range and Vancouver in British Columbia , Canada .
With an estimated budget of $ 23,000,000, US revenues were approximately $ 126,388,666, for a total of just under 130,000,000.
Director Fraser Clarke Heston is the son of Charlton Heston .
Awards
The film received the following three Young Artist Award nominations in 1997 :
- Best family film
- Best young actor: Vincent Kartheiser
- Best young leading actress: Thora Birch
Web links
- Alaska - The trail of polar bears in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alaska - The trail of polar bears at Rotten Tomatoes (English)