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Wild America movie storyline. In the summer of 1967, Marshall Stouffer is chased by his two older brothers, Mark and Marty; the brothers love using Marshall to film him in stunts, which he dislikes. Occasionally Marty and Mark will show footage of their antics in their garage to all their friends. Marshall repeatedly and secretly gets revenge on his brothers’ pranks against him by pulling diminutive malicious stunts like cleaning the toilet with his brothers’ toothbrushes and filling their canteens with downstream river water that they were at that current time urinating in.
Mark and Marty have a dream of filming dangerous animals around the country, and the dream starts when they find a rare, special camera in a shop where they have their films developed. Much against their father Marty Sr.’s recommendation, their mother Agnes loans them the money she was saving up and they begin planning their trip. Their father is against this idea.
The three brothers start camping. First, they miss a shot at catching an eagle, then go to film some alligators, and start by seeing a man who was attacked by an alligator. As they go in a swamp on a boat, Mark throws some bait but it lands in the trees, trying to retrieve it, his clothing gets stuck in a branch underwater and he starts to drown, Marshall and Marty drive the boat in attempts to save him, but it crashes into another branch, which sends Marshall flying into the water.
Marshall gets a knife from Marty and cuts Mark loose, but Marshall is now dealing with a bigger problem; he and the alligator are face to face. Marshall is able to get back on the boat in time. When they get back to the hut, the alligator man (Strango) tells them about how back when he served in the Korean War he befriended a fellow soldier named Phil.
Strango and Phil would exchange stories about their wilderness adventures. Strango would talk about hunting alligators and Phil would tell tall tales about bears. This rouses Marty’s attention and he asks about it. Strango states that Phil was talking about a cave full of hundreds of bears somewhere “out West.”
Wild America is a 1997 American adventure comedy film directed by William Dear, written by David Michael Wieger based on the life of wildlife documentarian Marty Stouffer, and starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa and Scott Bairstow.
Wild America (1997)
Directed by: William Dear
Starring: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Scott Bairstow, Frances Fisher, Jamey Sheridan, Claudia Stedelin, Anastasia Spivey, Leighanne Littrell, Amy Lee Douglas, Ashley Holliday Tavares
Screenplay by: David Michael Wieger
Production Design by: Steven J. Jordan
Cinematography by: David Burr
Film Editing by: O. Nicholas Brown
Costume Design by: Mary E. McLeod
Set Decoration by: Janice Blackie-Goodine
Art Direction by: Jack Ballance
Music by: Joel McNeely
MPAA Rating: PG for language and some adventure peril.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: July 2, 1997
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