Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week on the state’s tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the survival story from 1939.

"Lost on a Mountain in Maine" opened in 650 movie theaters on Thursday and is based on the survival memoir of the same name. The book, which was required reading in Maine schools for decades, was written by Fendler and Joseph B.

Lost On a Mountain in Maine tells the real-life story of a boy who was lost for nine days in the backwoods of Maine.

Similarly to George Clooney’s recent yawner The Boys in the Boat, Andrew Kightlinger’s adaptation of Donn Fendler’s true-story novella Lost on a Mountain in Maine is an example of old-fashioned, “traditional” filmmaking that wouldn’t feel out of place in the mid-1990s (or even the 1950s).

The movie based on Donn Fendler's classic survival memoir 'Lost on a Mountain in Maine' will finally hit theaters this Friday.

It’s the last day of October and I feel like this month had wings because it went by so quickly. I wish all who celebrate a very happy and safe Halloween. If you don’t have plans for Friday, or the weekend,

But some good acting by the kid playing Donn Fendler and his mother are among the highlights of this movie, inspired by a true story that's taught at Maine schools.