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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0031504068135
Format: NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: July 08, 1997
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 70136
Studio: Paramount
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Rating:  - Enhance the life of a child you love.
A single viewing of this movie captured my imagination, instilled a sense of adventure, and left me with a desire to pursue my life with ambition and confidence.I was nine years old when I saw it, and I'm 35 now.I can say without question, this is one of the best children's movies ever made.
Rating:  - Skip the movie - read the book!
My Side of the Mountain is a wonderful book. It explores a boy's adventures in living off the land on his grandfather's old farmland in the Catskill Mountains. He befriends several forest critters and raises and trains a peregrine falcon while learning how to survive in nature.
That said, I looked forward to seeing the movie. Unfortunately, the movie has no relationship to the book except for the name of the boy (Sam Gribley)and the name of the falcon (Frightful). The location was moved to ... Read More
Rating: - The names are the same. That's about all.
What a bummer of a movie! Why did the writers of the screen play see the need rewrite (and poorly at that) what was already a wonderful, wonderful story?Sam's Dad is a mere flash in the pan. Bando spends too much time singing songs that, to my recollection, were no part of the book.And what's up with Sam taking a microscope into the wilderness so that he can "conduct algae experiments"?Killing off Frightful was an unforgiveable departure from the "real" story. If ever a movie needed to be remade, ... Read More
Rating:  - Relieve those wilderness fantasies
A well done movie yet doesn't follow the book well.
Some parts of the movie that aren't in the book shouldn't have been in the movie either....better yet, read the two sequels to the book.
Rating: - Teacher Review
As with all books made movie, I give a little space for differences.However, this movie takes away from the book's central themes and creates a totally different story.My students (Resource - Junior High) were extremely disappointed that the characters were changed so much.My own kids (boys 9 & 7) watched half of the movie and lost interest, never asking to finish. I was disappointed also.
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