6.5 / 10
(23 votes)
Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to leave the city (set in Toronto) to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents promise a summer trip that doesn't pan out.
United States of America
Action,
Adventure,
Drama,
Family
100 minutes
1969
James B. Clark
Paramount Pictures
1997
7.1
1993
6.5
1988
7.0
2006
7.6
1988
6.6
1999
6.8
1997
6.8
2002
6.9
2000
6.4
2006
6.2
1997
6.8
2008
6.8
2005
6.2
2006
7.0
2008
6.1
1998
7.4
2022
0.0
2000
7.7
2022
0.0
2006
6.2