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IRON WILL – Joel McNeely
THROWBACK THIRTY
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Iron Will is a Disney-produced historical family adventure film, directed by Charles Haid from a screenplay co-written by John Michael Hayes, who wrote four of Alfred Hitchcock’s films in the 1950s (Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, and The Man Who Knew Too Much). The film is set in 1917 and tells the true story of a teenage boy named Will Stoneman who is left to take care of his mother after his father dies, and who enters a grueling 500-mile dog-sled race from Manitoba to Minnesota in order to raise money for her. Mackenzie Astin stars as the intrepid musher Will, and there is excellent support from future A-listers and stalwart character actors like Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers, August Schellenberg, and Brian Cox, but the film did not set the box office alight and is unfortunately mostly forgotten today. Read more…
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