All of TVGuide.com Videos Only

The Challengers

1991, Movie, NR, 97 mins

The Challengers: Review

Supposedly the French make the best movies about children, but Canada must run a close second. In the case of THE CHALLENGERS, done for CBC TV in 1991 (and bowing on US home video in 1994), a formulaic kidpic plot gets a boost from disarming young performers and bright dialogue. Eleven-year-old Mackie Daniels (Gena Zamprogna) and her widowed mom are recent arrivals in a seaside community, where Mackie's sense of alienation is compounded by the taunts of the Challengers, a c... read more leave a comment