White Water Summer (1987) on Netflix
Alan Block, a city teenager, has his summer planned until his parents bring in Vic, a wilderness guide. Vic talks them into six weeks off the grid with three other boys.
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Plot summary
Six weeks in the wilderness is Vic's prescription for Alan Block, a city teenager whose parents agree to send him along on the guide's trek with three other boys, Chris, Mitch and George. Chris and George taunt him, and he finds a friend in Mitch. On the first night Alan cuts his initials into a tree, and Vic puts the question of a punishment to a group vote; the boys take his knife. When the group swims at a river, Alan and Mitch follow a ball game on the radio until Vic takes it away. Vic later picks Alan as his bowman on a white water raft, and Alan, unprepared, loses an oar.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about White Water Summer (1987)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Cinematographer John Alcott, a frequent collaborator of Stanley Kubrick, died shortly before White Water Summer was released, and the film is dedicated to his memory.
- The narration framing the story, in which an older Sean Astin remembers the camping trip led by Kevin Bacon's Vic, was filmed two years after the rest of the movie, so Astin looks noticeably older.
