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    R2014 · Adventure · 1h 32m

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  1. Mar 20, 2015 · Backcountry: Directed by Adam MacDonald. With Jeff Roop, Missy Peregrym, Nicholas Campbell, Eric Balfour. An urban couple goes camping in the woods and find themselves lost in the territory of a predatory black bear.

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    • Adventure, Drama, Horror
    • Adam MacDonald
    • 2015-03-20
    • The True Story Behind The Backcountry Movie
    • Backcountry Film True Story
    • Who Are Mark Jordan and Jacqueline Perry?
    • Adam Macdonald’S Vision Behind The Backcountry True Story

    Backcountry, a 2014 film, is inspired by a true story that happened in 2005. That year, a black bear started making headlinesfor hunting people in the northern Ontario region. Here is the true story that inspired the movie: Jacqueline Perry and Marc Jordan, a young couple, were on a two-week holiday. Their plan included kayaking and camping at a re...

    Alex (Jeff Roop) and Jen (Missy Peregrym) play the roles of the real-life Marc Jordan and his wife Jacqueline Perry. In the movie, we see the married couple camping on the weekend. Right on their arrival, Alex is warned by a park ranger. The officer tells him his preferred trail is closed and he should use a different trail. But, Alex doesn’t liste...

    Mark Jordan and Jacqueline Perry were a young couple, both aged 30 at the time of the bear attack tragedy that happened to them. Jacqueline Perry was a doctor at Grandview Medical Center in Cambridge, Ont., and her husband of four years, Marc Jordan, a software engineer. The two studied at McMaster University, and it’s where they met. They later ti...

    The writer-director, Adam MacDonald, was first struck by this idea of a bear attack when camping with his wife. He heard a noise coming from outside the tent, which sparked the idea for the movie script. When Alex started writing, he did a deep dive into the history of wild animals attacking people. While researching, the story of Jacqueline and Ma...

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  2. Watch Backcountry with a subscription on Hulu, Netflix, rent on Prime Video, or buy on Prime Video. Tense, well-acted, and at once atmospheric as well as brutally impactful, Backcountry marks a ...

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    • Adam Macdonald
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    • Missy Peregrym
  3. One gets the uneasy feeling that the movie is working up some kind of allegorical statement on the Condition Of Contemporary Masculinity, and a certain species of sexual tension is evoked when Brad utters the line “Let’s see the potatoes.”. These considerations are magically transformed into red herrings, though, once a big hungry bear ...

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  5. An urban couple go camping in the Canadian wilderness - where unimaginable beauty sits alongside our most primal fears. Alex (Jeff Roop) is a seasoned outdoorsman while Jenn (Missy Peregrym), a corporate lawyer, is not. After much convincing, and against her better judgment, she agrees to let him take her deep into a Provincial Park to one of ...

  6. Sep 14, 2014 · Adam MacDonald talks about his feature directorial debut, Backcountry, the true story the film is based on, working with real bears and more at TIFF 2014.

  7. Backcountry is a 2014 Canadian nature–survival horror film, written and directed by Adam MacDonald, marking his feature film directorial debut. It is loosely based on the true story of a hungry man-eating black bear that attacked Mark Jordan and Jacqueline Perry, in the back country of Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park, North of Chapleau, Ontario in 2005, events for which Mark later received ...

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