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Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the mountains. Annoyed that the authorities aren't doing enough, Jessie and Sean set out on an adventure to find their father with the help of a polar bear which they have saved from a ferocious poacher. Conflict ensues.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1996-08-14

Runtime: 109 mins

Director: Fraser Clarke Heston

Writer: Andy Burg, Scott Myers

Spoken language: English

Genres: Family, Drama, Adventure

Original title: Alaska

Production Companies: Castle Rock Entertainment, Fuchs/Burg

Production Countries: Canada, United States of America

Cast

Jessie Barnes

Thora Birch

Sean Barnes

Vincent Kartheiser

Jake Barnes

Dirk Benedict

Charlie, Quincy Air Service

Ben Cardinal

Kristin Lehman

Stephen E. Miller

Don S. Davis

Charlton Heston

Duncan Fraser

Gordon Tootoosis

Ryan Kent

Stephen E. Miller

Byron Chief-Moon

Adrien Dorval

Reviews

Dan_Tebasco

**Actually pretty good, one of the better wildlife/animal family films of the 90's.** Definitly ALOT better than for instance THE AMAZING PANDA ADVENTURE which was released the year before, with some perfectly fine acting from even the kids one of which is Vincent Kartheiser who would later become one of the main stars in the tv series ANGEL. The other is Thora Birch, she might not be as good as Vince but she was okay at least. Would have worked as purely a survival film but they had to throw in some baddies in it as well, one of which is played by Charlton Heston the father of the director of the film Frasert C Heston. I'm not saying that they weren't okay baddies or anything but sometimes less is more as they say. But still as a family adventure film in the veins of the stuff Disney did in the 90's it's most certainly above average.

2017-05-19

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