A Week Away

Name: A Week Away
Genre: Musical
Released: March 26, 2021
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 32
Cast: Bailee Madison, Chelsea Corp, Christopher L. Plunkett, David Koechner, Ed Amatrudo

2021

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 26, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Bailee Madison, Chelsea Corp, Christopher L. Plunkett, David Koechner, Ed Amatrudo, Kat Conner Sterling, Kevin Quinn, Mari Kasuya, Rena MacMonegle, Sherri Shepherd

Summary: Nowhere left to go, Will Hawkins finds himself at camp for the first time. His instinct is to run, but he finds a friend, a father figure and even a girl who awakens his heart. Most of all, he finally finds a home.

Director: Roman White

Genre(s): Musical

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Michael Phillips

Mar 26, 2021

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. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Mar 26, 2021

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? Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 31, 2021

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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Mar 26, 2021

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. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Mar 26, 2021

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. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Mar 26, 2021

If anything, the film’s cross-pollination with faith-based cinema is detrimental to its already minimal tension. Read full review

The Guardian Adrian Horton

Mar 26, 2021

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. Read full review

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CorwinRichards

Mar 26, 2021

A great movie the entire family can watch. Bailee Madison was great! Love the song remakes from Amy Grant, Audio Adrenaline, Michael W Smith, and Steven Curtis Chapman!