Alaska

1996 "A missing father. A desperate search. An unforgettable adventure."
5.7| 1h49m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 14 August 1996 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: Canada
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Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the mountains. Annoyed that the authorities aren't doing enough, Jessie and Sean set out on an adventure to find their father with the help of a polar bear which they have saved from a ferocious poacher. Conflict ensues.

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Adventure, Family

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Director

Fraser Clarke Heston

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Columbia Pictures

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Artivels Undescribable Perfection
ThiefHott Too much of everything
Steineded How sad is this?
Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
adonis98-743-186503 While searching for their missing father in the mountains of Alaska, two siblings come across a baby polar bear on the run from a pair of poachers. Alaska is a 90's kids movie and a pretty decent one. The perfomances were quite alright nothing to really brag off on that scale, the cinematography quite beautiful and with alot of very good looking shots of rivers and basically the mountains and all that. The storyline quite interesting too and if you're not expecting some really oscar worthy or whatever you might actually very much enjoy it as well as i did. (7/10)
Ravi S Rao Captivating scenery of Alaska and a casual but simple story. I am not sure why this movie rating is anything less than 7 as I am freak of Adventure movies with simple plots. This one stands out.Have not seen Alaska being captured in such finesse in any movie or documentary as natural as this one.The Polar bear looks great. Also the poacher problems highlighted in the movie are so real and a fact of life in Alaska. The Kids acting are natural and superb. For the technology available in 19996, the whole movie is incredible in terms of everything. Looking at the movie, I have decided that it's high time that I need to make a travel plan to go to Alaska sometime soon. The real beauty is captivating.A great movie for the kids, family and everyone.
Chase_Witherspoon Average family fare has the face man (Benedict) a pilot and widowed father to two teenage kids, one of whom is struggling with the transition to manhood, manifest in his strained relationship with his father and general disaffection for his adopted home of Alaska. Benedict sets out on a late-evening flight as wild weather approaches, and predictably, his plane crashes leaving his kids potential orphans. Not content to accept the presumed verdict, his kids mount a life or death mission through the Alaskan wilderness to locate their father, with a curious polar bear cub leading their way, and a pair of poachers on their trail.Heston's son directs this formulaic adventure tale with glorious scenery and cinematography and a few reasonable stunts involving wild river rapids, and precarious mountain climbs. Heston is uncharacteristically low-key, mainly a background character, although he does command the more grandiose dialogue and manages to snare most of the one-liners. Like him or loathe him, he's understated and his presence has little overall impact on the quality of the film, other than to give his son's film a marquee headline.The hallmarks of "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" are present, the polar bear cub is cute-as-a-button, and Tootoosis' sage advice on human interaction with the local ecology, gives the film a conservation quality that is appropriate for the kids. Obviously it's clichéd and predictable with few surprises, but if you're after a sincere family friendly film the kids can comfortably watch under limited supervision, then the Hestons' "Alaska" should tick the box.
cloudz This movie is visually stunning. In a nutshell this movie is about a father who is a pilot and delivers toilet paper around the Alaskan wilderness. His plane crashes and his kids go out to search for him after being angry at the authorities for not doing enough to find their father. They free a cute little polar bear cub who has been caught by a poacher and the polar bear helps them find their lost father. The storyline isn't anything special and basically we have all seen a movie like this many many times. You know the..'kids go out to rescue mother/father/uncle/grandpa and get into lots of life threatening situations with cute animal in toe, but everything is a just fine and dandy in the end'.Was good to see Dirk Benedict who played Jake Barnes in Alaska, in something as I loved him in The A Team all those years ago. Thora Birch plays the part of Jessie Barnes his daughter and does the kind of acting job that we have come to expect from her... excellent. Vincent Kartheiser plays Sean Barnes the typical anx ridden/angry teenager who comes good and to the aid of his father.If you like visually beautiful movies and don't need them to be intellectual masterpieces, then watch Alaska