Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)

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Country: Canada, USA
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family
Release: 1995-11-03
Director: Kevin James Dobson
Writers: Barry Glasser
Language: English
Stars: Christina Ricci , Anna Chlumsky , Polly Draper , Brian Kerwin , Diana Scarwid , David Keith , Gillian Barber , Ashleigh Aston Moore , Jewel Staite , Amy Kirk
Runtime: 93 min
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination
AKA: El secreto de la montaña (Spain) , Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (United States of America) , Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (Canada) , Gold Diggers - Das Geheimnis von Bear Mountain (Germany) , Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain , Le secret de Bear Mountain (Canada) , Το μυστικό του χρυσού βουνού (Greece) , Caçadoras de Aventuras (Brazil) , Guldgrävarna - hemligheten i Bear Mountain (Sweden) , Un'amicizia pericolosa (Italy) , Poszukiwacze złota (Poland) , Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (Australia) , Caçadoras de Aventuras (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , El secreto del gran tesoro (Argentina) , Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (United Kingdom) , To mystiko tou hrysou vounou (Greece) , Gullgraverne: Bjørnefjellets hemmelighet (Norway) , Das Geheimnis des Bärenfelsens (Germany) , Тайна медвежьей горы (Russian Federation) , Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (Philippines)
Plot: Moving from the big city (LA) to a backwater town is always difficult, but especially for the one doing the moving. After her dad's death, Beth Easton and her mother, Kate, move to the house left to the family by a deceased aunt. Kate meets up with several old friends, but Beth has none. Slowly, however, she makes friends, despite the lack of a nearby mall or anything else to do. Soon she meets up with two boys fighting ... except one isn't a boy, but a girl. The girl, Jody, is shunned by her peers as a "bad kid." As the film progresses, we see Jody as the apparent victim of a bad relationship between her own widowed mother and Ray, a man who, like everybody else, grew up in the town. Somehow, Beth sees that Jody isn't all that bad; "she just needs a friend." Beth sticks by her, even when Jody is blamed for almost killing Beth. Jody has a dream, though, a dream of finding lost gold in Bear Mountain, left there by a legendary woman named Molly Morgan. Jody has a map, and she has a "condo" in the mountain near the entrance to a series of caves & tunnels leading to the supposed gold. On the first day of summer, Jody and Beth find the cave where the gold supposedly is hidden. The movie continues digging deeper into Jody's life through Beth's eyes. Although the legend of Bear Mountain is the prime motivator of several incidents, it's Jody's relationship to Ray, her mother, Beth, and the rest of the townspeople that provides the focus of the movie.
IMDB:tt0113188