The 11-year-old boy, a boy scout, who spent four days lost in the Utah wilderness is reunited with his family. The boy's mother has been quoted as saying, "The heavens are not closed."
I prefer White Water Summer. An inspiring movie about an boy, Sean Astin, who's parents send their awkward son on an outward bound summer vacation. Kevin Bacon, the guide, is a hard ass who loves to commune with nature and takes offense at his groups inability to embrace the wilderness. Bacon flips out, smashes Sean's radio, frees the fish caught 'unfairly', and leaves the kids alone over night during a storm prompting a mutiny! The teens rebel and 'accidentally' throw Kevin off of a cliff... (Gasp) Then it's up to the pubescent city slickers to somehow come together, beat the odds and get out of the wilderness alive with an injured Kevin Bacon. It's wrought with tension and in the end Sean Astin shoots the rapids with Bacon in tow to save the day and go on to get cast in Encino Man several years later. Go Samwise Gamgee! Now that's exciting.
But hey, good for the boy that was recently saved from wandering aimlessly in the woods for days, and thanks to all the Mormons who were out searching. A happy ending. It's nice. (Did anyone shoot the rapids? Anyone at all?)
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