Synopsis
Troubled teen Will Hawkins has a run-in with the law that puts him at an important crossroad: go to juvenile detention or attend a Christian summer camp. At first a fish-out-of-water, Will opens his heart, discovers love with a camp regular, and sense of belonging in the last place he expected to find it.
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Cast
- Bailee MadisonAvery
- Kevin G. QuinnWill Hawkins
- Sherri ShepherdKristin
- David KoechnerDavid
- Jahbril CookGeorge
- Kat Conner SterlingPresley
- Iain TuckerSean
- Ed AmatrudoMark
- Hutch GreeneTimmy
- Josh RasilePolice Officer
Recommendations
- 50
Chicago Tribune
The cast generates the goodwill. Madison and Quinn bring heart and some shrewd dramatic instincts, while Cook and Sterling settle comfortably into a sincere comic key. - 50
IndieWire
Its low-key religious underpinnings — truly, no one even hauls out a Bible during the entire film — likely won’t rankle the secular set, even as Christian kids will be happy to see their worldview reflected by way of a mild crowd-pleaser. It’s hammy, it’s predictable, it’s a little silly, but what YA musical isn’t? - 50
Movie Nation
The kids do what kids do in such syrupy summer camp (PG) romances. There’s a little melodrama, tears, a crisis of faith. At least the adults take a shot at bringing the funny. - 38
RogerEbert.com
This isn't an unwatchable movie, just an underachieving and forgettable one, and somehow that's more irritating than a disastrous swing for the fences would've been. - 30
Variety
If anything, the film’s cross-pollination with faith-based cinema is detrimental to its already minimal tension. - 30
The New York Times
This is a film as tidy, transparent and kid-friendly as a square of Jell-O salad, and so squishily eager-to-please that it doesn’t engage with its religious themes so much as tuck them into song lyrics to hover in the narrative like grapes. - 20
The Guardian
The low stakes of the camp drama and the soundtrack’s indistinguishably familiar pop (adaptations of contemporary Christian hits, plus four original songs) aim for easy, catchy, comfortable fun – a breezy intention which casts some of the script’s insensitive moments in even harsher light.
