Search - Alaska on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Excellent For Children Movie Release: 1996 DVD Release: 09/03/2002 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 49 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Adventure, Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure

Widower Jake Barnes (Dirk Benedict) moves with his daughter and son to a fishing village in Alaska, and earns his keep as a bush pilot by ferrying supplies to remote locations throughout the state. While the daughter loves her new home, the son cannot stand it, and is impatiently waiting until he is grown up enough to move away. However, they join forces to look for their father when they learn that he has gone down in an airplane accident. The official search party is called off and Jake is assumed dead, but the children will have none of it, and go off on their own into the Alaskan wilderness. Along the way, they thwart a big-game poacher (Charlton Heston) and his sidekick, and learn about survival in the wilderness. A highlight of the film is its fine footage of wild Alaska. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Thora Birch - Jessie Barnes
Vincent Kartheiser - Sean Barnes
Dirk Benedict - Jake Barnes
Charlton Heston - Perry
Gordon Tootoosis - Ben

Fraser C. Heston's family adventure film Alaska comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. Subtitles are accessible in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Bahasa, Portuguese, and Thai. Supplemental materials include a making-of featurette, an interactive game about the state of Alaska, and the film's theatrical trailer. This is a decent release from Warner Brothers that will please genre enthusiasts. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide