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I agree the director was asleep during this film. What plane crash causes bark chips from a chainsaw to fall off a snapped off tree? I'm a woman and the first thing I noticed was the indisrepencies in the plane "crash". Do the filmmakers think we won't notice?? Not a believable movie at all. Now I'm just watching it for fun to see what else was missed.

Nothing else was on so I figured I would watch this Lifetime movie. What a stinker. The acting was horrible, especially the girl who plays 13 year Claire. One minute she's crying over some trauma but as the camera pans away from her face you can see her smiling....

I figured out the plot 10 minutes into the movie which should have been my clue to turn it off but it was like watching a train wreck in slow motion - I just couldn't turn away from the carnage.

The scenes were also phony especially the plane crash scene. I would love to know what the budget was on this movie because it must have been made on a shoestring. Terrible acting, stupid, predictable plot. Do not waste 2 hours of your life on this drivel.

This was one of the dumbest movies I've ever watched. I gave it 2 stars because at least it gave my 8 year old son and I a good laugh at its stupidity and inconsistency. Seriously, was the director on crack? ...or just stupid? Helpful bears, howling wolves that no one seemed concerned about, snow in one scene but not in the next, the old flash drive in the teddy bear trick, Alaska officers driving to the plane crash in the the Canadian wilderness.

Gee, if I were in a plane crash in the wilderness, I'd light a smokey fire and wait. I don't think I'd "head east" because a 13 year old girl thinks there might be a town in that direction. Guess that wouldn't make for much of a storyline though.

...and how about the review that praised the movie for showing the delicate balance a woman with a teen girl has to go through if she wants a rich, go-getter boyfriend. Get real.

At the start of the movie, Marcus has broken into a downtown Seattle office. He has what looks like a cigarette lighter (I'm told that's called a "flash drive"), which he uses to download important data from a computer. And he's not kidding around; someone dies before we see the other main characters.

Valerie divorced Claire's father when Claire was 7, and they live with her mother Carol. Now Claire is 13 and rebellious, but basically good. She has diabetes and must rely on an insulin pump.

Valerie's latest boyfriend Steve (who may be the one) works for a drug company which is about to discover an important treatment for pancreatic cancer. He seems to be rich, and he is quite caring. But he will never be good enough for Claire.

Valerie, Claire and Steve are going on vacation in Alaska, and they will get to take Steve's private plane. Well, not Steve. He has important work to do, possibly relating to that cancer treatment. But Marcus comes along. He's really nice and his knowledge proves valuable on the trip.

Over a remote but beautiful area of The Yukon, the plane gets in trouble and has to make an emergency landing. And snow is coming. Now what?

I think pretty much everyone does a good job here. The standout performances in this movie are those of Leslie Easterbrook as Valerie's frantic mother, and the actor playing the pilot. Nicole Munoz is quite good too.

The first half of the movie, despite a couple of deaths, makes this appear to be a family adventure in the tradition of "Lassie" and Disney movies. But don't be fooled. The movie's tone changes dramatically during the search and rescue. However, I think the V-chip rating of TV-14 that I saw may have been overly cautious. My feeling about this rating is that sometimes perfectly clean family adventures might get a TV-PG-V, so some additional caution is justified here. There is enough violence to be a concern.

There are some really exciting scenes, especially the plane crash, and some danger in the wilderness. The main characters handle themselves quite well, though, and mother and daughter get to know each other and work out their differences in some really pleasant scenes. There is even occasional comedy.

The biggest fault, in my opinion, is that the writers seemed to forget about Claire's diabetes about half the time. Doesn't the average healthy teen have a hard time waking up cheerful in the morning? There are also some inconsistencies as the snow moves closer to the lost family. I suppose it's possible to have no snow at all five miles from where everything is covered.

Overall, I enjoyed it.

The plane goes down in the Yukon, but the search is staged out of Yellowknife and it's a short drive to the search area???

A Yukon search would be staged out of either Watson Lake or much more likely Whitehorse. Yellowknife is a five day drive to the Yukon during which you go a long way south to Fort Nelson before you head north again. Those roads to Fort Nelson are all gravel so speed isn't possible.

Also the FBI would have no jurisdiction, they would not even be allowed to carry guns. While they might be present, since they're after Americans, they would have to be accompanied by RCMP officers who are the only ones with the authority to make an arrest or anything else involved with law enforcement in the Yukon.