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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Sixteen-year-old Ryan Delaney has won a scholarship, but it's not a full one, so he needs a summer job to pay for his university expenses. And although he's not eighteen, he can't swim, and has never been to camp, he manages to get a job as a camp couselor. But his mother makes him take his younger brother, Sullivan, with him to camp, since she can't look after him while she's working. But camp turns out to be harder than both Ryan and Sullivan thought it would be; and as they fight their battles, they learn about each other, themselves, and what they can do together. ...Looking for Miracles ( L'été des victoires )
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Greg Spottiswood and Zachary Bennett spark with electricity together as two brothers struggling with their relationship. This film is an accurate and intimate representation of a sibling relationship full of jealousy, awkwardness, anxiety, strength, warmth, and love. The scenery (the Wilds of Canada) is fantastic too. I looked for my copy of this film for years, after having first seen it on Channel Four. It was well worth the wait.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I read the previous helpful review, but still expected the film to be overly sentimental, twee, and pious.
It is in fact a wonderfully funny, sharp and totally engaging look at life in the depression years of the 1930's in a summer camp for boys somewhere in Canada. There are no heroes, no villains, just a bunch of believable people each with their strengths and weaknesses, sympathetically portrayed.
Beautifully acted by a large and committed cast I would just like to mention, in addition to the two stars, Patricia Gage who plays the rich lady at the camp, rather in the manner of Katherine Hepburn, and Noah Godfrey who plays `Ratface' - what a talented little chap.
Kevin Sullivan, who directed, produced and co-wrote this made for TV film for the Canadian Broadcasting Commission in 1989, seems to have turned out industrial quantities of the stuff. It is difficult to believe, however, that the standard reached by `Looking for Miracles' would be oft repeated.
The DVD itself has no sub-titles and the chapters cannot be accessed from the main menu. The production has the rather flat look of TV films of the period and the sound quality is good.
One of the best TV films I've ever seen and better than most features.
Talking of `rats', people who like `Looking for Miracles' might also want to watch `Ciske the Rat', (available at Amazon.com) a somewhat bleaker, but nonetheless top-drawer, evocation of a boy's life in Holland in the 1930's.
It is in fact a wonderfully funny, sharp and totally engaging look at life in the depression years of the 1930's in a summer camp for boys somewhere in Canada. There are no heroes, no villains, just a bunch of believable people each with their strengths and weaknesses, sympathetically portrayed.
Beautifully acted by a large and committed cast I would just like to mention, in addition to the two stars, Patricia Gage who plays the rich lady at the camp, rather in the manner of Katherine Hepburn, and Noah Godfrey who plays `Ratface' - what a talented little chap.
Kevin Sullivan, who directed, produced and co-wrote this made for TV film for the Canadian Broadcasting Commission in 1989, seems to have turned out industrial quantities of the stuff. It is difficult to believe, however, that the standard reached by `Looking for Miracles' would be oft repeated.
The DVD itself has no sub-titles and the chapters cannot be accessed from the main menu. The production has the rather flat look of TV films of the period and the sound quality is good.
One of the best TV films I've ever seen and better than most features.
Talking of `rats', people who like `Looking for Miracles' might also want to watch `Ciske the Rat', (available at Amazon.com) a somewhat bleaker, but nonetheless top-drawer, evocation of a boy's life in Holland in the 1930's.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Quite a good story but the acting does not really work. The little boy is fine but the actor playing the older boy is 26, not 16 as he is supposed to be. Not convincing
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