i saw bit and piece of this on tv once and and when a friend recommend it and i begin look for it even though it seem no place nearby have it . i finally get a hold of it in an antique store and and couldn not wait to watch it . oh and that i have see it a couple year earlier and could have really enjoy it . i be surprise that this movie be only 80 or so minute long and and i think this be what make the plot and story so lacking . the plot really do sound like a good one and both on the trailer and the movie comment represent a teenager and angus ( jesse bradford ) and his newfound stray lab yellow be maroon on an island during a storm on a boat trip with his father ( bruce davison ) . together and they manage to survive the wilderness and wait to be find and rescue . still and what be never mention be that everything be shorten and the event of the plot be very rushed . there be a possible love interest between angus and sara and but theyre never show together for more than a moment . yellow be a mischievous dog the parent be reluctant to keep and but in a few day he seem to be appreciate enough to join a boat trip . the scene of the mother ( mimi rogers ) mention vaguely what death be like to the young boy ( joel palmer ) doesn not go anywhere . in no time and we learn that 9 day have be spend on the island and then suddenly it 14 and then 19. of all the animal a castaway could be expose to in the wild and only 1 kind a wolf attack them . why couldn not something else have be a problem instead of have the same type of animal maybe even the same one strike twice . there be few view of how angus prepares food and except when he discover fruit and root and and when he roast a trapped rat . if he know so much about survival skill and why weren not more scene with it show . the one thing that make me blank be why the dog do not have much part alone . when he be rescue and and the dog be leave behind on the island and there be no scene show how he survive without a human help . i wish i be more open to this when watch it and but i do enjoy some of this . the acting be good and and the score be enjoyable . though and i find myself wonder why the father look so much old than his family and and why he and the main search and rescue conductor share names . this be a good movie for kid and but though the protagonist be 14 and nobody over 10 would be interested with this .