My Side of the Mountain

My Side of the Mountain
by James B. Clark

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Actor: Cosette Lee, Paul H?bert, Ted Eccles, Theodore Bikel, Tudi Wiggins
Director: James B. Clark
Cinematographer: Denys N. Coop
Editor: Alastair McIntyre
Producer: Robert B. Radnitz
Writer: Jane Klove
Writer: Jean George
Writer: Joanna Crawford
Writer: Ted Sherdeman
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 100 minutes
Release Date: 1995-02-21
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Publisher: Paramount Home Video
Studio: Paramount Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of My Side of the Mountain

Movie Review: Skip the movie - read the book!
Summary: 1 Stars

My Side of the Mountain is a wonderful book. It explores a boy's adventures in living off the land on his grandfather's old farmland in the Catskill Mountains. He befriends several forest critters and raises and trains a peregrine falcon while learning how to survive in nature.
That said, I looked forward to seeing the movie. Unfortunately, the movie has no relationship to the book except for the name of the boy (Sam Gribley)and the name of the falcon (Frightful). The location was moved to Quebec (no mention of grandpa's farm so Sam is clearly trespassing now), a pet raccoon named Gus was added (why?), Frightful is killed off (why? There are 2 more books in the trilogy), Sam is there with a microscope to do algae experiments (and the purpose of this is....?) and Sam learns his lesson (?) after being snowed in for 2 days and goes home at Christmas.
Forgetting the lack of relevence to the book, the movie story does not play well on its own. Forget this dvd - it is definitely not worth it.

Movie Review: The names are the same. That's about all.
Summary: 1 Stars

What a bummer of a movie! Why did the writers of the screen play see the need rewrite (and poorly at that) what was already a wonderful, wonderful story? Sam's Dad is a mere flash in the pan. Bando spends too much time singing songs that, to my recollection, were no part of the book. And what's up with Sam taking a microscope into the wilderness so that he can "conduct algae experiments"? Killing off Frightful was an unforgiveable departure from the "real" story. If ever a movie needed to be remade, and properly, this is the one! One good thing ... I was pleased to see my son, who has trouble with reading comprehension, get filled with indignation at the way they spoiled his favorite story of all time. Seeing him point out the endless discrepancies let me know that he is overcoming his comprehension troubles.

Movie Review: Relieve those wilderness fantasies
Summary: 2 Stars

A well done movie yet doesn't follow the book well.
Some parts of the movie that aren't in the book shouldn't have been in the movie either....better yet, read the two sequels to the book.

Movie Review: Teacher Review
Summary: 2 Stars

As with all books made movie, I give a little space for differences. However, this movie takes away from the book's central themes and creates a totally different story. My students (Resource - Junior High) were extremely disappointed that the characters were changed so much. My own kids (boys 9 & 7) watched half of the movie and lost interest, never asking to finish. I was disappointed also.

Movie Review: I bought this for my 23 year old son for Christmas......
Summary: 3 Stars

along with the book. He used to watch the movie many times over when he was a kid, but had never read the book. He said he really enjoyed the book, which he read before watching the movie this time. And then the movie was a little bit of a let down. However, he had watched the movie so many times when he was a little boy, and he has so many good memories of it, I would recommend it to anyone with younger children. It's a great story.

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