The book,"My Side Of The Mountain" is full of adventure, wilderness, and suvival. When young Sam Gribley decided to run away from his crowded New York City home into the Catskill Mountains, Sam realizes life on his own in the wilderness isnt as easy as he thought. With only a few items on hand, Sam had to fight freezing winters, and mouth drying summers, but to help him through it all, Sam managed to make some new friends. Over all,"My Side OF The Mountain," was a great book, especially for young readers such as me.

This was a great movie!! I have read the book and I understand that changes are made with movies that come from books. The book and movie are both seperate works. The book was very exciting. I found the movie to be very exciting. I would highly recomend the book and the movie to anyone. Take them at face value, judge them seperatly, not against each other. The movie fulfills every boys dream.
When I was in the fourth grade, I hated school, my teacher gave me a copy of this book and it inspired me to read. I still have the book and that was more than 30 years ago!

I got my DVD of this film today! It is in widescreen! This has always been one of my favorite movies. After his father tells Sam that he can't take him on a trip to the mountains, he decides to run away from home to study nature. He has a pet raccon and a falcon and a few other wild critters. This movie has a lot of insight into nature.

I mean no offense to other reviewers on this site, but there are a lot of negatitive reviews of this movie. I haven't read the book, but one thing I need to mention is this: I think a lot of people who read the book expect the movie to be just like the book, no more no less. Well, It's unrealistic to expect this-the movie can not be the book and the book can not be the movie-movies are different than books. You got to take what you like about the book and write the script from that. This is done all the time in Hollywood. Sometimes what works on the printed page won't work on screen and vice versa.

I like Sam's voice over in this film because it provides insights into his thoughts or what he is writing in his journal. As a bonus you'll learn a new recpe for syrrup and pancakes!

So give this movie a try! Ignore the negative reviews until at least you have seen the movie.

I too must say if I had never read the book, I would have enjoyed the movie. The movie was a bit disappointing, first off the movie is set in Canda. But the book is set in the Catskill Mountains in New York. Why the change? The Catskills are beautiful. Also as mentioned the bit about Frightful's death an the addition of Gus. While Gus was cute he simply didn't exist in the book. Why the changes, the book is perfectly find the way it was written. We may hope for a remake of the movie but it is highly doubtful this will come about. Hope this review was a bit helpful.