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- No sex
- The teen hero is seen diving into a lake; his backside is visible briefly during the dive.
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- The boy is shown vomiting, both graphic audio and visual.
- A porcupine shoots quills into Brian's leg after he kicks at it, thinking it a raccoon. The next day he's seen groaning in pain as he pulls the quills out of his bloodied leg.
- The boy briefly wrestles with a huge bear in the river; the bear runs off after the boy wades too far into the water.
- A boy holds out a self-made spear to protect himself against a bear and the bear runs into it; its injured fur is shown with a brief blood spray before it wanders off into the dark (later it's strongly implied the bear died).
- A man has a heart attack and dies while flying a plane, which crashes into a lake and leaves the young boy to fend for himself.
- The body of the pilot when Brian goes to get the survival kit out of the plane may frighten young children, as the face is partially missing around the eye from decaying underwater.
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- A few swear words are used during duress
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- Young children may find the plane crash intense.
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- Some people maybe disturbed at the scene where Brian eats bugs off a tree trunk.
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- 19901990
- PGPG
- 1h 22m
Adapted from Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet", a boy crash-lands in Canada's bear country and survives with a hatchet his divorced mother gave him.Adapted from Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet", a boy crash-lands in Canada's bear country and survives with a hatchet his divorced mother gave him.Adapted from Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet", a boy crash-lands in Canada's bear country and survives with a hatchet his divorced mother gave him.
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awesome movie based on a great book!!!
When I first heard this movie was being made, I knew I had to see it. I had read the book many many times. The only thing I was worried about was, along with any other movie, that it didn't follow the book. Well, we were in luck as the writer for the movie was none other than Gary Paulson, author of the book Hatchet, for which the movie was based. So by that I knew that the movie was going to go right along with the book, and I was right. The boy who played Brian did an awesome job, as he portrayed fear and loneliness well. It looked like he was actually experiencing the fear and terror of being alone in the Canadian woods. And covering himself with mud to stop the bugs from eating him alive was great to put in there. Thats real life put into a movie. Anybody that hasn't seen this movie should see it. It was wonderfully made and worldly liked.
- greenmachine715
- Oct 1, 2002
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