Lost on a Mountain in Maine

2024

Adventure / Crime / Drama / Family

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 2576 2.6K

based on true story twin brother survival maine depression era mountain rescue

Director

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Andrew Kightlinger

Top cast

Griffin Wallace Henkel Photo
Griffin Wallace Henkel as Ryan Fendler
Ethan Slater Photo
Ethan Slater as Henry
Caitlin FitzGerald Photo
Caitlin FitzGerald as Mrs. Ruth Fendler
Ashlyn Alessi Photo
Ashlyn Alessi as
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1 hr 38 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TxMike

Based on real events in 1939.

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.
Reviewed by drednm

Terrible Film

Story based on a true event when in 1939 a kid is with his family trying to climb Mt. Katahdin but they all wimp out and the kid gets pissed and runs off, only to get lost for 9 days in the wilds.Sad to say this is a long, dreary film with amateurish acting. There are some old interviews with people involved and even some actual newsreel footage when the kid is saved. But the story is badly told. If I remember right, this premiered this past summer at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville.For me the real cheat is that the entire film, despite the title, was made in Upstate New York and some Katahdin shots were actually just a model of the mountain in a studio. There's also stock aerial footage. No Maine. The family was actually from Rye, NY and only summered in Maine a few years.Also, there's all this baloney "lore" about the Indian spirit that haunts Katahdin, which I never heard before in my life. It could be true, I suppose.Good story, badly told.
Reviewed by LiveLoveLead 5 / 10

Good story, average movie

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.
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