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6.3/10
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Three brothers who are obsessed with animals are given permission from their parents to travel around America with a camera documenting wildlife.Three brothers who are obsessed with animals are given permission from their parents to travel around America with a camera documenting wildlife.Three brothers who are obsessed with animals are given permission from their parents to travel around America with a camera documenting wildlife.
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Leighanne Littrell
- Tanna
- (as Leighanne Wallace)
Jennifer Bonder
- Betsy
- (as Jennifer Crumbley)
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Did you know
- TriviaFrances Fisher plays Jonathan Taylor Thomas' character's mother in this film. In 1991, she was cast as his character's mother in the show "Home Improvement" (1991), but was replaced due to poor early audience reaction to her.
- GoofsMarshall uses his brothers' toothbrushes (the green and yellow ones) to clean the toilet, then places them back in the holders with their names on them. Marty's is yellow, Mark's is green and Marshall's is blue. Later that night, Marty is using the blue toothbrush, Mark is using the dirty green, and Marshall is using the dirty yellow one.
- Quotes
Marty Stouffer: No, Mom, he's fine, he just fell down a mountain.
- Crazy creditsWildlife documentary from the 1982 TV series by the real Marty Stouffer accompanies the credits.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: Men in Black/Wild America/Out to Sea (1997)
- SoundtracksSusie Q
Written by Eleanor Broadwater/Dale Hawkins/Stan Lewis (as Stanley Lewis)
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Good clean family fun, and pretty funny
I believe in grading movies on a curve. This one is not in the same class as Citizen Kane or Fargo or Some Like It Hot. Instead this is a low-budget and somewhat corny—okay, pretty corny—family film like, oh, Because of Winn-Dixie. And graded on the curve appropriate for that class, this is at least an 8 out of 10. I'll be honest, my wife is the one who ordered this from Netflix and I didn't want to see it. I had Gosford Park in the DVD tray ready to go. But my wife thought our 15-year old would enjoy Wild America more, and our daughter agreed. I was outnumbered. So we watched this film.
I didn't know anything about it. We were a good 10 minutes or more into the film before I put the family's last name (Stouffer) together with the first name of the oldest son (Marty) and realized, "Hey, I know who this kid is: It's Marty Stouffer of..." D'oh.
Anyway, I expect that the real adventures of the real Marty and his brothers weren't quite as colorful as those of the characters in the film. But there were a good combination of excitement (and from some unlikely sources, like F-14 jets dropping bombs) and genuine humor. I laughed hard again and again.
Special effects? Well, I'll just say, it ain't Jurassic Park. I think the animal props were rented from a budget prop store in Atlanta. But it didn't matter. I enjoyed the film a lot. Do what I did, get some fresh hot pizza, sit back with your spouse and a kid or two, and enjoy it yourself.
I didn't know anything about it. We were a good 10 minutes or more into the film before I put the family's last name (Stouffer) together with the first name of the oldest son (Marty) and realized, "Hey, I know who this kid is: It's Marty Stouffer of..." D'oh.
Anyway, I expect that the real adventures of the real Marty and his brothers weren't quite as colorful as those of the characters in the film. But there were a good combination of excitement (and from some unlikely sources, like F-14 jets dropping bombs) and genuine humor. I laughed hard again and again.
Special effects? Well, I'll just say, it ain't Jurassic Park. I think the animal props were rented from a budget prop store in Atlanta. But it didn't matter. I enjoyed the film a lot. Do what I did, get some fresh hot pizza, sit back with your spouse and a kid or two, and enjoy it yourself.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,342,923
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,810,586
- Jul 6, 1997
- Gross worldwide
- $7,342,923
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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