IMDb plot summary: During a lifelong expedition planned by four lifelong friends - Will, Brian, Matt, and Corey - Corey's beloved grandfather suddenly passed away.
Directed by Eric Hannah. Stars Dante Basco, Ryan Browning, and A.J. Buckley.
Extreme Days follows some recent high school graduates as they go on a road trip across the country, making some new friends and learning some lessons along the way. This might be the most bro-y youth group movie ever made, which means I am spectacularly not the target audience. It reminds me a bit of the jukebox musical A Week Away, in that it tries to be a faith-adjacent film without actually invoking God, presumably to broaden its appeal, but that just makes everything feel muddy and unfocused (what ARE these characters learning?). The male characters are exhausting to spend time with, and the endless snowboarding sequences wear out their welcome fast. Honestly, the most enjoyable part was recognizing random CCM songs... even if some of them were wildly out of context ("Good Life" by Audio Adrenaline used as a "whoo, my life is awesome" song is kind of hilarious). I got very little out of this, and I doubt I would have even as a Christian teen.
How it entered my Flickchart:
🎥 Extreme Days (2001)
📊 Ranked #3190/4176 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 24
lost to Raising Arizona (held at #2091)
lost to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (held at #3133)
beat Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (#3654 → #3655)
beat Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (#3394 → #3395)
beat Beauty and the Bestie (#3264 → #3265)
beat When Strangers Click: Five Stories from the Internet (#3197 → #3198)
lost to Tiramisu (held at #3165)
lost to The Return of the Pink Panther (held at #3181)
lost to We're No Angels (held at #3189)
beat Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (#3193 → #3194)
beat A Mighty Wind (#3191 → #3192)
beat The Iceman (#3190 → #3191)
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