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White Water Summer
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hopes to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.
Release : | 1987 |
Rating : | 6.2 |
Studio : | Columbia Pictures, Polar Entertainment, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Set Decoration, |
Cast : | Kevin Bacon Sean Astin Jonathan Ward Matt Adler Caroline McWilliams |
Genre : | Adventure Drama |
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Wonderful Movie
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
White Water summer is one of the two Kevin Bacon movies featuring white rapids. This one is the more jovial one as he plays a camp coach to a bunch of youngsters. The usual follies follow. The direction is good, and some outdoor scenes of the wilderness are quite good. Still, this is one of those easily forgotten movies that Kevin Bacon made to probably earn a paycheck. Good one-time watch.
I am still trying to figure out how the canoe magically transported itself across the shaky bridge to the mountain lake. The scenery in the movie is outstanding but the progression of the changing geography and scenes makes less sense than the story line. I give the movie a 2 for the scenery.And now I am required to write an addition 5 lines that no one will read. Let's see. the river rescue scene at the end. At first Alan and Kevin Bacon's character start out on a huge river which narrows down to a much smaller white water river. Nowhere in the world does this happen Somehow Alan by himself gets Kevin with a broken leg down off the mountain and loads him in the canoe for the final white water scenes. There are numerous dumb inconsistencies in the story line just like that. Maybe the way to watch this is every time the movie flubs is take a straight shot. Then by the end you will not notice or care about all the lame mistakes.
WWS was good for it's time, and I still like to get out my copy now & then. A few good things about the movie is the great scenery,music,and big-name actors (Kevin and Sean).WWS is not a real favourite of mine but I give it 8/10
This review reveals crucial events in the overall plot.Young teenaged boys indeed swear and use the very best of profanities amongst each other. This kept the dialogue surprisingly believable-it didn't seem contrived and wasn't overdone.I also found very believable Vic's character as wilderness guide to these young teenagers. Even when he left Allen on the other side of the bridge and later hanging by the cliff-he reassured Allan that the group would be just a little further ahead waiting for him. Vic seemed to me to be trying to teach Allan that indeed he could accomplish what the other kids had just done. He almost told Allan this word for word. Wasn't that the whole point of the trip? Vic was harsh but he didn't break any laws or otherwise act unscrupulously punitive.However, it is true that Vic was scapegoating Allan. He made all the other kids carry the canoe and then took Allen for the ride-an insidious decision that Vic tried to pull off as spontaneous. And Vic was far too punishing when he left Allan alone (especially overnight!) on the island because he caught the fish the wrong way.I found it extremely unbelievable how the kids ended up almost killing Vic, and then so resolutely decided to just leave him there (only Allan behaved remotely believably). Vic did not abuse his authority so much as to incite in those kids that kind of desperate mutiny-of-sorts. If this ever happened in reality it would be most unusual and remarkable.