Directed and produced by Emmy® nominee Christian Duguay ("Joan of Arc") and starring Gregory Smith ("Everwood"), Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Max Payne), and Peter Stormare (Fargo), BOOT CAMP is based on true events and follows a group of troubled teens sent to a boot camp facility on the tropical island of Fiji.
Trapped on an island with no rules, no walls and no way out, the teens endure unimaginable physical and emotional abuse that leaves them brainwashed, isolated and close to death. Lead by Sophie Bauer (Mila Kunis), and her determined boyfriend Ben (Smith), the prisoners must band together in an attempt to find a way out, with the camp's director Dr. Hail (Stormare) doing everything in his power to keep the facilities under complete control. Will the convicts take over before it's too late or will they have to stay and tolerate the violent behavior of the doctor and his crew on the island?
Filmed on location in Fiji and featuring explosive scenes with non-stop action and suspense, the Boot Camp Unrated DVD will be available on August 25 for the suggested retail price of $26.98. No extras have been announced.
Note: this film is unrated (includes female nudity)
Boot Camp is a 2007 psychological suspense thriller feature film written by Agatha Dominik and John Cox and directed by Christian Duguay.
This film is the story of a group of unruly teenagers whose parents send them to a rehabilitation Boot camp (correctional) to turn them around. The camp collects each child individually, then delivers them to the boot camp facility on a remote island in Fiji. There are no walls to stop the teenagers from leaving, but escape is impractical due to the surrounding sea. On arriving at the camp, the teenagers are forced to wear cuffs with sensors around their ankles — if they attempt to escape, security will be alerted.
Dr. Hail (Peter Stormare), who runs the camp, forces the teens to work constantly. He has them clean the camp, grow plants, and has them rebuild the camp after it was damaged in a storm. Campers are required to wear color coded t-shirts. First, new arrivals are given black t-shirts. They progress to yellow and then white. The teens earn a white shirt once they have been "corrected." They do not do work; they become staff members and abuse the other inmates and monitor their work. Among the staff is an ex-Army recruit. He is very tough towards the inmates and makes deals with girls in exchange for sex.
It turns out that what their parents believe is a state-of-the-art deluxe institution in a beautiful natural environment turns out to be a prison-like boot camp where they are abused and brainwashed by their environment.
The film's working title was Straight Edge and was shot in Fiji as the first film to utilize the southwest Pacific Ocean island country's five-year-old incentive program that had been designed to create jobs while building a film production infrastructure.
Choi Jung-in of South Korea's JoongAng Daily wrote, "From the outset, director Christian Duguay makes it clear that "Boot Camp" is based on true events." "...I loved Duguay's message that children should never be abused under the pretext of parental love".
