After the Gunflint

[Plays Oct. 29 at 5 p.m. at the Twin Cities Film Festival; for more information, log on to twincitiesfilmfest.org.] When a spunky high school student (Josie Axelson), who leaves her mother (Heidi Doe) at home, goes camping and fishing with her workaholic father (Al Norby) and grandfather (Bruce Purcell) in the Minnesota woods in Jd O'Brien's compelling, tense, realistic, well-acted, touching, predictable, 80-minute film highlighted by gorgeous scenery, the trip gets dicey and turns into one of survival and reconnection when she ends up breaking her arm and her grandfather, who forgot to pack his nitroglycerin pills, suffers a devastating, massive heart attack.
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