Fern Hill

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Audience Member Fern Hill is one of those super independent, diamond in the rough films, that you'd be lucky to ever hear about. That's why I always recommend using features like IMDb Watchlist or rating what you watch on streaming sites! By doing so, you will receive suggestions for films you may never otherwise have known about, and that's how I found Fern Hill. The film follows Colin (David James), who's father's plane went down eight years ago. One night Colin has a dream that the answers to what happen to his father lie in a distant part of the Colorado wilderness known as Fern Hill. Along with his three best friends, Colin embarks on a mission, to go out into the wild, and find out what really happened to his father. Fern Hill is a very toned down version of Stand By Me, instead of bodies and guns you get haunted houses and strange loners living in the wilderness. It is most definitely a child friendly film, but at it's core, it's still a terrific coming of age story. All the kids have their own issues that bind them together and their own reasons for wanted to escape on this journey, leading to some terrific chemistry and character development. Perhaps the most impressive thing about this film however, is that all four boys are local children and were not in fact actors. Many of them haven't even done anything since this film, making for a very unique cast that feels more real than almost any other coming of age film you will ever see. I also enjoyed the way it was shot, as a low budget independent film, there is nothing flashy, fancy, or overly edited. Fern Hill is just an extremely real, enjoyable, feel good film, with scenes that will take you back to your own childhood. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Very sweet movie! Tony and I really enjoyed it!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A surprisingly good little Stand By Me clone. This movie is rather postmodern in the manner that it openly acknowledges in the screenplay how derivative it all is of that finer film. It never achieves the natural storytelling of that film, relying too much on the voiceover telling us the things that were obvious in the story itself of Stand By Me. The acting is not bad in my opinion but certainly not on a par with the cast of the more famous film. All in all, I found it a satisfying low budget effort that put across its Christian message without ever getting preachy or diverging too far from realism in portraying a group of adolescents. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member pretty much a total rip off of stand be me but with a disney kind of feel Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member oops I thought this was another movie... how do you delete movies? Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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