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Apparently, family movie night is back. Or, at least, that's what we're hearing out of NBC, anyway. Tonight's TV-movie, Secrets of the Mountain, certainly looks like a family movie. It appears to be one part Indiana Jones, two parts Goonies and 97 parts National Treasure 2, and it follows a single mom and her three kids as they go on a forced family vacation to visit property her uncle left her, and which now has a mysterious purchase offer. Of course, the property ends up including an entrance to an underground labyrinth, with a lot of yawning chasms and a Mayan pyramid and trap doors and slides like the ones that led the Goonies to One-Eyed Willie's pirate sh-- wait a minute. Mayan pyramid? Where does this take place? The town, Tesla Falls, appears to be in the Pacific Northwest, and I-- wait, Tesla Falls? Sigh.
Goonies comparisons aside, this looks pretty dang cheesy, with goofy effects and lame "I'm a teenager, you wouldn't understand, OMG blah blah blah texting" dialogue. Any notable stars would have redeemed it, but Barry Bostwick and Paige Turco are the only familiar faces in the whole thing, and Turco isn't even that familiar. Bostwick is, of course, a TV regular and a commercial pitchman thanks to his velvety voice (and let us never forget The Rocky Horror Picture Show), but Paige Turco was in The Agency and Party of Five and a few episodes of Damages>. I barely recognized her, but while refreshing my memory I was pleased to see that she also played April O'Neill in two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies! You win this round, NBC Family Movie Night. Well played.
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