The Spring |  | Director: David Jackson
Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Alison Eastwood, Joseph Cross, George Eads, Aaron Pearl
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
Buy New: $29.98
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 54769
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D14321D
UPC: 012236143215
EAN: 0012236143215
ASIN: B00009YXGR
Theatrical Release Date: January 16, 2000
Release Date: August 19, 2003
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/23/2006 Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Pg13
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Decent made-for-TV thriller October 27, 2009
z hayes (plano,texas)
"The Spring" is not bad if one's expectations aren't too high. I watched this on a rainy afternoon on the Lifetime Movie Network and found it interesting. I liked the premise of the movie, which centers around a bucolic little town called Springville. A widower Dennis Conway (Kyle Maclachlan) and his son Brian are on their way to the mountains for a camping trip when they stop to help two stranded motorists. Once the motorists leave, Brian finds a bag they left behind and father & son decide to stop by the address provided on the bag to return it. The address is in Springville, and both Dennis and Brian decide to spend the night after finding no one home at the provided address, and find it strange that the local police are keeping an eye on the house.
The next morning, Dennis is having breakfast in a local diner whilst Brian plays outside and gets in a accident, requiring hospitalization. The pair are introduced to the town doctor, Sophie (Alison Eastwood), and Dennis is immediately attracted to her. At the same time, Dennis is puzzled that the police seem bent on getting him and Brian to leave the town. By now, viewers already know that the town harbors a spring that has healing powers and staves off aging. The question is: Will the budding romance between Dennis and Sophie go anywhere, and if so, what will Dennis and Brian decide to do after discovering the town's secret? There is more to the town than just being eternally young, for there is a price to be paid.
This story reminded me of Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery", and I plan to watch the TV adaptation of the story. "The Spring" is quite engaging, it did keep my interest, but the plot was rather predictable, though I felt the actors did a decent job in their respective roles, especially those in the lead roles. I would rent it though.
 Interesting concept but could have been better March 16, 2008
Terry Reyes (Alameda, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First off, I am a big George Eads fan, which is the primary reason I got this film. That being said, I think it was an interesting and rather intriguing concept but slowed and lagged after 45 minutes. The first half is very good especially how the town is introduced to us and how the director shows the intrigue build when we see the notebook with the dates of when people died. But after that is seems to lose itself and the climax was rather flat considering the build up leading to it. I expected something on the same level as the Lottery. I also thought that the son had a stronger moral and ethical streak in him than the father, whom I thought was being kind of selfish. I didn't think it was a great film but it wasn't bad enough that I wouldn't recommend it. Just don't expect much.
A mediocre thriller August 24, 2007
Dancing Ganesha (Northern Hemisphere)
For some reason, everything I've been watching lately or reading has something to do with age, and the fact that people cannot deal with aging or death. Everyone wants to live forever, at the cost of everything and everyone else, at the cost of social conscience and personal conscience (spirit, spirituality, etc.) This film struck these same chords. Basically a sort of made-for-tv drama, or else some straight to video type movie, it was listed somewhere else as a horror film, but it really isn't, it's more of a "thriller" than anything else. Would I recommend it? Well, if you like Kyle Machlachlan (he's okay as an actor, actually kind of classy, despite his stint with "Showgirls), then certainly rent this or buy this, but I can't say this film deserves four stars, it's rather mediocre.
 Pretty good for a TV movie. July 12, 2007
Meg_Breanne (British Columbia, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Admittedly, I only bought this movie because I am a huge fan of CSI's George Eads. When the DVD arrived, I expected to enjoy it moderately. I actually enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Perhaps I'm biased because it was filmed in my home town of Fort Langley, BC (which at the time of purchase, I didn't realize) . . .
The acting is pretty good all around, I think. Some parts are cheesy and the story isn't exactly realistic, but it was a good movie to watch. All in all, I'm glad that I spent the $13 on it. I'll watch it again.
Check garage sales for this title October 24, 2005
Michael Heusdens (Tallahassee, Florida United States)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
There's no need to buy this one for under a dollar. Check garage sales in your area. Just as many made-for-tv movies, NBC took a nice premise into a 93 minute slow paced, ok plot, I'm ready to take a nap movie, B flick. Even tho I have watched it from beginning to end, the beginning part of the movie is laughable (need to congrat the director and the cutting team from not knowing right from left (and Kyle MacLachlin for not knowing how to pretend to swurve passably!).
It's the scene at the beginning when a guy steps out on the road and tries to flag down the van our main character and his son are in. Kyle yanks the steering wheel to the left (for that year and model van, the giant twists of the steering wheel would have made the top-heavy van go into a roll-over!). In the cut seen of the camera facing the van, the van immediately swurves over to the right (hmm... driver sits on the left side, turns the wheel counter-clockwise [left], and the van goes to the right.......)..... LOL Made it laughable at such an elementary mistake so early into the movie (not even two minutes into!).
If you find it at a sale price of a dollar, go ahead and pick it up. But I wouldn't waste any more than that on this movie.
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