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Rating: 3/10 (29 September 2007)

Sad Sad Sad!
This movie was 2 hours to long the way it was edited. Should have been a short story film at Sundance. Good support acting and could have maybe been a great mini series (5 or 6 2 hour episodes might do it) if the film editor could have spent a week or two in the wild and gotten a true understanding of the fortitude that it takes to survive in the harshest of elements and really had the time to edit for an epic of a mini-series not the big screen!
Penn's heart strings were twanging at trying to bring this true story to the big screen. He would have been better off making a mini-series where he really could have taken the time to tell the "REAL TRUE SAGA" of this young mans demise. Every time you would start to get enthralled with an adventure of this young man's life they would jump you in time to another character study and the trials and trepidations of growing up in a world of dysfunctional people. Sink or swim is the adage that comes to mind or the strong shall survive. Either way my recommendation would be to wait for the DVD!