Lost on a Mountain in Maine

Speaking as a Mainer, this is a great Maine story don right. Authentic to the era (1939) it's a true story of a boy lost on Mount Katahdin, a preserved wilderness unlike any other park. Inter cut with actual interview clips from rangers, family members and friends, it has an authentic feel that a regular movie could not duplicate. The actors do a great job. The emotions between mother and son, father and son, brother and brother ring completely true to life. The one drawback is that much was filmed in New York and for Mainers it sure doesn't look like Maine; others won't notice. This is a perfect film for kids age 10 and up. A real family film. We need more of those. Take your kids, your grand-kids, go yourself; you won't be disappointed.

This inspirational true story was filmed at a slow meandering pace that held little tension or build up. The acting was average and the film lacked creativity and character building. With the setting of the mountain wilderness it should have had more stunning cinematography. The film is interspersed with interviews of the real people and ends with some information/updates and pictures of the family and of the person who made the film. Although I believe, and respect, that it seemed to stay true to the authentic story, in someone else's hands this could have been a more engaging and moving piece of work IMHO. 5.5/10 stars for me.

I liked the movie. I think it is well done. The acting is good beside the mother. Absolutely incapable of acting one single emotion, which kind of degrades the movie, but beside her, the others did it well. I am always amazed at kids that can act. Specialy kids of today. They are usually so pressured because of social media, I haven't seen any good acting since this movie. I don't know how the actress who plays the mother got the job though. Come on... all she could do is smirk. Anybody can do that. The hardest part to watch was when she should be sad that her son is lost... how in the hell did she get the job in the first place... change career woman, you're too uptight for this.

Why this went to theaters is beyond me. Bad acting, bad cinematography, and the director should have researched Maine Wildlife cause we don't have giant millipedes nor jungle birds. Pretty sure the majority of the film wasn't even filmed in Maine. Now as for the story, severely altered from the truth, and aside from the search it just follows a boy walking through the forest, nothing exciting or dramatic. Frankly the whole film was quite boring. They should have gotten Ron Howard to direct, maybe he could have put some life into the film. Direct to Streaming was all this film deserved and that's being generous.

My wife and I were looking for a pleasant, not difficult movie to watch after our usual Saturday steak and wine dinner. We found this one streaming on Peacock. We enjoyed the viewing.

It is a dramatization of events from the summer of 1939. A family had been planning a fishing trip but dad had to change plans because of work. So instead he took his twin sons on a hiking trip up one of the mountains in Maine.

One of the twins, Donn, was the headstrong one of the two. He was more likely to get angry and perhaps do things he wasn't supposed to. As they are hiking, led by a friend who was experienced there, the weather started to become threatening. Instead of agreeing to go back with the others he took off on his own, confident that he would be OK.

So the movie is about his survival, lost on the mountain for at least 9 or 10 days, I lost count. Search parties turned up nothing, his family started to fear the worst. But his dad had always told him, if you find a stream follow it because it will lead you to a river and you could follow that.

A nice touch is the movie interspersed with interviews with family and friends apparently made in the 1990s. Plus even some low quality B&W news footage from 1939.

This is pretty plain movie but well made and tells an interesting story.