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Shot in 1985, White Water Summer has some of the most beautiful nature scenery shot in that era. Thanks to the brilliant camera work by Stanley Kubrick cinematographer John Alcott.
Kevin Bacon plays Vick, a man who takes four teens into the rugged Sierras for a whitewater adventure to make men out of them. After the boys get on his nerves, he lets his job go to his head. It is, at times, a poignant young-men-against-nature film. And at other times it seems to appeal to only one crowd: boys in their early teens.
After relizing that his film was under 80 min., director Jeff Bleckner called the whole cast and crew back to shoot more scenes.
Really captures the late-80s with its rock soundtrack (including music from Bruce Hornsby and The Range, The Cult, and The Cutting Crew) and never stops the thrills. Although it never seems to be going in any one direction, White Water Summer keeps your attention.
Kevin Bacon delivers such a good performance, as an at-first likeable councellor turned strict and harsh.
When one of the boys rebel against Vick and cause him to become seriously injured, they need to act as a team and come up with a plan. You mostly follow Alan (Astin) a smart young man who doesn't fit in with the others. He learns friendship, fear, adventure, and survival tecniques. Although in some spots it may seem like a silly teen adventure film, it is more about rites of passage and growing up.
score 10/10
LostHighway101 26 August 2002
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