Overview
Journey to Spirit Island is a 1988 U.S. Emmy Award-winning family adventure film directed by Lásló Pal, produced by Bruce Clark, with a screenplay by Crane Webster from a story by Lásló Pal and Crane Webster. It stars Bettina Bush, Brandon Douglas and Marie Antoinette Rodgers. The cinematography is by the Oscar-winning Vilmos Zsigmond.
On the Olympic Peninsula and a nearby, unspoilt San Juan island; a young Native American girl, her brother and their two new friends battle land developers determined to build a holiday resort on the sacred burial site that is Spirit Island.
Plot
Two brothers Michael (Brandon Douglas) and Willie (Gabriel Damon) are on vacation from Chicago to Spirit Island with a teenaged Native American girl named Maria (Bettina Bush) and her brother Klim (Tarek McCarthy). They plan to save Spirit Island to preserve their heritage, when a conflict arises regarding the development of tribal burial grounds. When her Grandma organizes a protest against defiling their ancestors' sacred burial ground, Maria takes up the cudgel. The villains are land developers who seek to transform Spirit Island into a vacation resort.
Cast
Bettina Bush as Maria
Brandon Douglas as Michael
Marie Antoinette Rodgers as Jimmy Jim
Gabriel Damon as Willie
Tarek McCarthy as Klim
Tony Acierto as Hawk
Nick Ramus as Tom
Atilla Gambasci as Phil
Rod Gibbens as Peter Mackel
Frank Salsedo as Hoots
Skeeter Vaughan as Harry
Edie Hottowe as Lucy
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