Keeping the Promise

Starring: Keith Carradine, Annette O'Toole, Brendan Fletcher, et al.

Keith Carradine and Annette OToole star in Keeping The Promise, a powerful family drama adapted from the best-selling novel The Sign Of The Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare, that has?become required reading in schools throughout the country.? This film begins as?a hopeful tale of a colonial family seeking a new and promising life in?Maines wilderness?in 1768. Their hopes, dreams, and family?survival?are severely tested when the father reluctantly leaves his thirteen-year-old son, Matt, alone in the wilderness to protect their claim until he returns with the rest of the family. Weeks of waiting turn into months and months into seasons as his family struggles against a deadly epidemic and other hardships in their journey to rejoin their son. Young Matts ability to survive his lonely and dangerous vigil becomes more questionable with each passing day, until a band of Penobscot Indians befriend him. The experience transforms Matt as his Indian benefactors teach him lifes most important lessons about survival, trust, loyalty and hope.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 033937031779
• Release Date: January 2004
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Questar
• Director: Sheldon Larry
• Starring: Keith Carradine, Annette O'Toole, Brendan Fletcher, Gordon Tootoosis, Maury Chaykin, David Cubitt, Darrell Dennis, Allegra Denton, Nell Geisslinger, William Lightning
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 7.5"