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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonThe historical road less traveled - shot in re-enactments that are obviously familiar with the terrain - is beguiling enough.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAt 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.
- 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.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickThe 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.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckIt's a nice little human interest story, but hardly seems worthy of this full-length treatment.