Boot Camp (2007)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Christian Duguay

Writers (WGA):

Agatha Dominik (written by) and
John Cox (written by)

Release Date:

8 May 2008 (Kuwait)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

Based on real events.

Plot:

A group of at-risk teens are sent to a what they think is a rehabilitation program on Fiji, but is really a prison-like camp where kids are abused and brainwashed.

Plot Keywords:

Island | Boot Camp | Rape | Tropical Island | Lifetime Shower

Cast

Mila Kunis	...	Sophie
Gregory Smith	...	Ben (as Gregory Edward Smith)
Peter Stormare	...	Norman Hail
Regine Nehy	...	Trina
Alejandro Rae	...	Jack
Christopher Jacot	...	Danny
Tygh Runyan	...	Logan
Matthew Smalley	...	Nick
Colleen Rennison	...	Ellen
Barbara Gates Wilson	...	Rhonda
Christianne Hirt	...	Lucy
Lexie Huber	...	Marianne
Serge Houde	...	Karl
Chris Nannarone	...	Stan (as Christino Nannarone)
Joe Norman Shaw	...	Ben's Father

Also Known As:

Straight Edge (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

Germany:99 min (European Film Market)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

South Korea:18 | Australia:MA | Singapore:M18 | Netherlands:16 | Canada:14A

Filming Locations:

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Company:

CD Films

missed opportunity.. you need help

you know i've been doing some research 'missed opportunity'. i've found that many people in the fields of psychology and rehabilitation, do themselves suffer from psychosis, both mild and severe. now i'm not well educated in the field of psychology, so my lack of a phd may lead you to disregard the last statement. oh well.

yes, i do believe that boot camp is needed to help some children, such as my step sister who i strongly believe should be sent to one. but she is 18 and can opt out at this point. yes i DO believe that children with such behavioral problems have unfit, abusive, negligent, or otherwise ignorant and naive parents. that's not to say the parents are bad people. and a great deal of this comes from environment, school, and friends.

my step sister for example is the single most selfish, disrespectful, rude, self centered, un disciplined, slutty girl i have ever met. her mother and father are not bad people. however her father doesn't know how to stick with his word, and gives in too easily. her mother just spoils her. she's never had much discipline, if any, or self control for that.

on the contrary, i know my faults. i was lazy when i was younger. i didn't like to study but i still got good marks, but i never disrespected my parents. i never said ''no'' to them, and i was always polite and generally obedient. i never spoke rudely to them, and i never did drugs, alcohol, partying, or sex.

all this in light of the fact that my father was a rapist and raped me from the time i was 11 until the cops found out when i was 15. but there were points when my father threatened to send me to boot camp for being a ''horrible, useless, lazy, selfish'' girl. and my mother did not know what was happening when she wasn't home. but when she got home she believed him that i was all those things. and i never was.

so YES i buy into that there are times when you people should do a little research before assuming ''oh evil child, poor poor parent'' i am married now, i'm not a teenager. do you know that the school i went to, i was unpopular (duh) and made fun of... and i knew who the meanest kids were, i knew who were the drug addicts and such. but i also knew almost all of their parents. do you know that i can not think of a single kid that was a bad kid, acted up, did drugs.. that didn't have either a looser for a parent, or one that didn't care.

now this isn't coming from some convict, i've never done drugs, i so rarely drink and honestly i don't like the flavor of alcohol, i'm not some out going person. i've lived in a 3rd world country now for 4 years, as my husband is from this country. i see these bad behaviors more than you ever will in your professional career. you think it is bad the kids you get? possibly the drug addicts, the under aged murderers, the rapists... at the extreme. i see that every day and all i need to do is look out on the street.

big contrast to where i grew up, in the safe woods 30 miles from my school. and yet there i saw it too, just more secretively.

in no way do i condone the behavior of these kids, nor excuse it. as my step sister has learned not to disrespect me, i'm the only person she has a little respect for. i don't like her, and i would support the decision to send her to boot camp. but it would take an idiot to say her father is not partially to blame only because he is a nice man. i like my step dad, but that doesn't make him perfect.

yes they need discipline, yes they need strictness. but how in your right mind can you think it is in any way excusable to teach other kids to beat their peers is how you get out of a tough situation. to kick them, insult them, abuse them, rape them... that's how you get through. uuuh, last time i checked, thats WHY they are like that. boot camp, its more like a camp to create even more psychotics.

if you think the man that ran that camp ''cared'' for those children... tough love has taken a new turn in your book. i guess when i look at people with those problems, and i look at their parents and their friends... especially their parents. it's one of a few things. their parents are too soft and let them do anything. their parents are so strict it drives the kids nuts. their parents are abusive, or spoil them rotten. and the man that beats them and teaches them to beat the other kids, and starves them, and denies them nutrition, and chains them to cement blocks, and throws them in wells, and brainwashes them down to the mental capacity of a robot... CARES!? are you really that freak'n stupid!? yeah sure the security guy was an a** but u really think a guy that walks by all these things happening, and ENCOURAGES it.. cares!? omg... I think if the parents of the kids in your profession read this, you'd loose your career.

i'm the kinda person that wont tolerate disrespect and such lifestyles as my step sister or many other people. but if i ever saw a person like you near my kids i'd get a restraining order. and i'm not exaggerating, i've been through the system, i've been in tougher situations than a jerk like you can imagine, and the one thing i've gained from this all, is that i've learned to be a person of my word.