Alaska is one of those films that is just there. There is nothing groundbreaking involved in it, but there is nothing offensive about it either. Directed by Fraser Clark Heston, Alaska tells the story of a father, Jake (Dirk Benedict), and his two kids, who lived in the lower 48 states until Jake's wife died and the family moves to Alaska, for the reason of making this movie it looks like. If the director's name looks vaguely familiar, it's because Fraser's daddy is an actor named Charlton, who also plays a polar bear poacher (imagine that, Charlton Heston wielding a gun, what are the odds?). Jake flies airplanes, and of course on one of his trips, the plane goes down, and it is up to his two kids Jessie (Thora Birch) and Sean (Vincent Kartheiser) to find him. With the help of a baby polar bear, the kids go out into the Alaskan wilderness, meet bear poachers, Eskimos, and other fun things. Alaska is an OK movie, nothing that will make you wish you hadn't seen it, just don't expect the Ten Commandments.
