Product Details

• Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Robert Prosky, Sam Robards, Nicholas Pryor, John Dennis Johnston
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Anchor Bay
• VHS Release Date: November 27, 1991
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302282314
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #416,990 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 stars don't go vaning alone in Nebraska, October 7, 2000

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Peter Shelley "petershelley" (Sydney, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Into Thin Air [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This 1985 TV movie is compelling due more to the path leading to the find of a 19 year old Canadian student who heads off from Ottawa alone in a van to drive to Colorado but goes missing in Nebraska, than the sledgehammer direction of Roger Young. Although this story is said to be true, credit must go to writer George Rubino, particularly in downplaying and omitting most of the cliches of the genre. There is the ubiquitious drama about someone wearing an article of the missing boy's clothes, but thankfully it is skimmed over quickly. As the boy's mother, Ellen Burstyn has 2 good scenes, one where she has an angry outburst at a police station, recalling Shirley MacLaine's hospital scene in Terms of Endearment ("Give her the shot!"), and the second when she emits animal noises on discovery of her son's trashed van. Also good is Sam Robards as her other son, and Robert Prosky as a private investigator Burstyn hires. The treatment comments on the "jurisdictional complexities" which unnecesarily burden missing person investigations, and makes out that the police and FBI were blundering incompetents in this case. There is also a postscript that tells us hundreds of teenagers go missing every year without trace, a bleak and dour note to end on, though perhaps in line with the fate of the boy.

4.0 out of 5 stars INTO THIN AIR - DRAMA DVD, January 28, 2011

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Douglas Lewis (PENN YAN, NEW YORK, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Into Thin Air (DVD)

"Into Thin Air" is an excellent drama (based on a true story) of an Ontario, Canada mother and familily's wearing struggle to find thier son, gone missing enroute to a summer college classin Denver, U.S.A.
Frought with difficulties in even getting police to list the boy on missing persons police computers and left to their own drive and devices. Following scant disconnected and confusing partial paper trails of cashed money orders that lead only to more confused mystery, the family finally hires a private dectective who makes the story of their sons disappearance and fate unfolds.
Not a fast-paced nerve ride like most movies today, but a worthy view as the movie's pace while being viewed sets the same frustrating, trudging trying emotions they family goes through in their journey, but not boring. Just don't look for adrenalin here. Look for the realistic emotions, frustration, trying times and exasperation battled through by love-driven drive to find the boy.

5.0 out of 5 stars DVD Purchase, November 10, 2010

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Ron J. Smith - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Into Thin Air (DVD)

Happened to see this made for tv movie when it first aired on tv and I loved it.. When I saw it was on dvd, I had to have it. Very well made with great acting. Ellen Burstyn is great. A must have movie!