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  • 2012
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2012
  • 1 h 14 m

Summary The Manzanar Fishing Club began as a lecture, walking tour and artifacts exhibit to raise awareness of the internees who slipped away under the cover of night to find freedom and adventure matching wits with the prized trout of the Sierra Nevada's high-altitude lakes and streams. This creative treatment of actual events is the brainchild...

Directed By: Cory Shiozaki

Written By: Richard Imamura

  • 2012
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2012
  • 1 h 14 m
The Manzanar Fishing Club
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Summary The Manzanar Fishing Club began as a lecture, walking tour and artifacts exhibit to raise awareness of the internees who slipped away under the cover of night to find freedom and adventure matching wits with the prized trout of the Sierra Nevada's high-altitude lakes and streams. This creative treatment of actual events is the brainchild...

Directed By: Cory Shiozaki

Written By: Richard Imamura

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Sep 12, 2012
The historical road less traveled - shot in re-enactments that are obviously familiar with the terrain - is beguiling enough.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 15, 2012
It's a nice little human interest story, but hardly seems worthy of this full-length treatment.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 13, 2012
The Manzanar Fishing Club has enough interesting footage for perhaps a 15-minute segment of a TV news magazine. Beyond that, my eyes started to glaze over with endless talk about rods, reels and bait.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 13, 2012
The time with these survivors is appreciated, as who knows how much longer we'll have access to this living history. But I'd rather have heard them describe something other than bait, or how their fishing rods advanced from willow to bamboo to items from the Sears catalog.
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Sep 12, 2012
At its best, the film uses fishing as a window into the internment experience. At its worst, it uses the internment story as the backdrop for a documentary on trout fishing.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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Production Company From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks, Talk Story Media
Release Date Sep 14, 2012
Duration 1 h 14 m
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Website http://www.facebook.com/TheManzanarFishingClub
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