Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

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Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kevin James Dobson
Written by	Barry Glasser
Starring	Christina Ricci Anna Chlumsky Polly Draper
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	November 3, 1995 December, 1995 1996
Running time	94 min (US)
Country	United States Canada
Language	English
IMDb profile

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain is a 1995 drama film starring Christina Ricci and Anna Chlumsky. The film was a commercial flop, grossing just $5 million at the US box office, but gained good sales and rentals in 1996, when it was released on VHS^{[citation needed]}. The DVD was originally supposed to be released in early 2007, but was postponed^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Plot

Moving from the big city (Los Angeles, California) to a backwater town is always difficult, but especially for the one doing the moving. After her dad's death, Beth Easton and her mother, Kate, move to the house left to the family by a deceased aunt. Kate meets up with several old friends, but Beth has none. Slowly, however, she makes friends, despite the lack of a nearby mall or anything else to do. Soon she meets up with two boys fighting ... except one isn't a boy, but a girl. The girl, Jody, is shunned by her peers as a "bad kid." As the film progresses, we see Jody as the apparent victim of a bad relationship between her own widowed mother and Ray, a man who, like everybody else, grew up in the town. Somehow, Beth sees that Jody isn't all that bad; "she just needs a friend."

Beth sticks by her, even when Jody is blamed for almost killing Beth. Jody has a dream, though, a dream of finding lost gold in Bear Mountain, left there by a legendary woman named Molly Morgan. Jody has a map, and she has a "condo" in the mountain near the entrance to a series of caves & tunnels leading to the supposed gold. On the first day of summer, Jody and Beth find the cave where the gold supposedly is hidden. The movie continues digging deeper into Jody's life through Beth's eyes. Although the legend of Bear Mountain is the prime motivator of several incidents, it's Jody's relationship to Ray, her mother, Beth, and the rest of the townspeople that provides the focus of the movie.

[edit] Main cast

Actor	Role
Christina Ricci	Beth Easton
Anna Chlumsky	Jody Salerno
Polly Draper	Kate Eatson
Brian Kerwin	Matt Hollinger
Diana Scarwid	Lynette Salerno
David Keith	Ray Karnisak