Cold River

A good family style movie
I first saw this movie as a teenager and was glad that this movie is still available! This isn't a GREAT movie. It is a very GOOD movie.

The one thing that struck me about this movie when I first saw it was how two young kids struck with a horrible tradegy survive in the wilderness on their own. Sort of a dumbed down version of the "The Edge" with Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins and a much younger cast.

If you're looking for a "safe" movie for your kids and one that deals with overcoming hardship you're picking up the right video.

Pretty butchered
I saw this movie about 15 years ago on TV and quite liked it. I'm sorry to say that most of the memorable scenes are cut from this DVD, so it's pretty watered down. And the cut's are made so obviously that even if you haven't seen it before they absolutely interrupt the flow of the movie.

Heart-Warming Family Adventure Film
This independent film did well in Sundance and started off the (unfortunately) short-lived career of Fred G. Sullivan of Saranac Lake, N.Y. Taken from the novel by William Judson, it contains the mild but rich story of a brother and a sister stranded in the 1920 wilderness of the Adirondacks to survive. On a shoe-string budget, Sullivan manages to capture the heart and spirit of the Adirondack Mountains as well as the characters of the young siblings as they struggle through a winter of turmoil in the mountains. It si no small feat that James Earl Jones plays the kind-hearted hermit who takes the children in for a while and the ending is a surprise for all when the small boy is pitted against a criminally minded convict who will stop at nothing. It is the kind of family film you would see on PBS; it is that rewarding.

Fred G. Sullivan went on to receive accolades at the Sundance Film Festival with his follow-up, "Sullivan's Pavilion", a story of his life and family in...

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