Here in Atlantic Canada it can get to -45 degrees Celsius in January (ugh, it's horrible). So it's hard to even imagine what it would be like to be on a normal sailing vacation discussing trivial family issues with your kids, only to end up shipwrecked on the icy shores of Alaska with no human life for miles and terrible weather, little to eat and no supplies.
Eddy Barton and his three children Wendy (the melodramatic teenage daughter), Dave (jock boy with dreams of working on a boat) and Krista (geeky younger daughter who enjoys reading The Hobbit) are sailing during a storm only to find themselves facing a situation they never thought possible. Stuck on a barren seashore of Alaska drenched in seawater and surrounded by ice, wind and snow, the family literally has to do ANYTHING to survive. Unlike most Lifetime movies, this one gets extremely disturbing, especially when Wendy and Krista are left on the shore while Dave and Eddy get help by rowing a raft away to safety. The two girls are left with only a soggy blanket for shelter and Wendy begins to go crazy, hallucinating and eating rotten seaweed full of maggots (that part really grossed me out, ewwww). They have no idea if the family will ever meet up again or who is even alive anymore.
Anything to Survive was very dramatic, but not to the point where it wrecks the movie. Instead, the movie leaves quite an impact, and makes you wonder what you would do in a situation like this. William B. Davis (the Cigarette Smoking Man on the X-Files), has a very minor but effective and well-acted role as the dentist, Dr. Reynolds. The Vancouver scenery and Canadian landscape was beautiful (Alaska is a United States territory but is attached to Canada and the movie was filmed in Canada). The soundtrack was great and I'm really happy to have been able to find Anything to Survive on youtube.
Eddy Barton and his three children Wendy (the melodramatic teenage daughter), Dave (jock boy with dreams of working on a boat) and Krista (geeky younger daughter who enjoys reading The Hobbit) are sailing during a storm only to find themselves facing a situation they never thought possible. Stuck on a barren seashore of Alaska drenched in seawater and surrounded by ice, wind and snow, the family literally has to do ANYTHING to survive. Unlike most Lifetime movies, this one gets extremely disturbing, especially when Wendy and Krista are left on the shore while Dave and Eddy get help by rowing a raft away to safety. The two girls are left with only a soggy blanket for shelter and Wendy begins to go crazy, hallucinating and eating rotten seaweed full of maggots (that part really grossed me out, ewwww). They have no idea if the family will ever meet up again or who is even alive anymore.
Anything to Survive was very dramatic, but not to the point where it wrecks the movie. Instead, the movie leaves quite an impact, and makes you wonder what you would do in a situation like this. William B. Davis (the Cigarette Smoking Man on the X-Files), has a very minor but effective and well-acted role as the dentist, Dr. Reynolds. The Vancouver scenery and Canadian landscape was beautiful (Alaska is a United States territory but is attached to Canada and the movie was filmed in Canada). The soundtrack was great and I'm really happy to have been able to find Anything to Survive on youtube.