IMDb plot summary: Nowhere left to go, Will Hawkins finds himself at camp for the first time. His instinct is to run, but he finds a friend, a father figure and even a girl who awakens his heart. Most of all, he finally finds a home.
Directed by Roman White. Starring Kevin Quinn, Bailee Madison, Jahbril Cook, and Kat Conner Sterling.
This is a surprisingly nonspecific and nonpreachy Christian movie, which does make it an easier watch but also makes it very difficult to track a character arc, since it hints at Christian epiphanies but won't actually say any of them out loud. The CCM musical numbers are everything I wanted them to be -- enormous and cheesy and awkwardly choreographed and full of nostalgia for me. I wanted more of them, though. The few newer songs and original tunes we got didn't fit the vibe nearly as well, and since I was really only watching this for the nostalgia, I missed having more. Besides, how do you do a 90s CCM jukebox musical set at a youth group camp and not include "Friends" by Michael W. Smith? Overall, neither as bad nor as fun as I wanted it to be -- more knockoff Camp Rock than Facing the Giants.
How it entered my Flickchart:
A Week Away < The Beach
A Week Away > Horton Hears a Who
A Week Away < The Hurt Locker
A Week Away > So I Married an Axe Murderer
A Week Away > Frida
A Week Away < The American President
A Week Away > Sunshine (2007)
A Week Away < The Autopsy of Jane Doe
A Week Away > Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
A Week Away < Genius
A Week Away < The Trouble With Angels
A Week Away < Dear Frankie
Final spot: #2153 out of 3332, or 35%.
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