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Boot Camp (2007)

Boot Camp poster
Directed by
Christian Duguay
Genre
drama film, teen film, psychological thriller
Country
United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 208 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Teenagers are sent to a remote rehabilitation camp in Fiji. There, they are subjected to abuse and brainwashing by the camp staff.

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What happens

Boot Camp, also released in the UK as Punishment, is a 2008 psychological thriller film written by Agatha Dominik and John Cox and directed by Christian Duguay. The film's working title was Straight Edge and it 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. It is about teenagers sent to a rehabilitation camp (in Fiji) who are then abused and brainwashed. The film stars Mila Kunis, Gregory Smith and Peter Stormare. The filming began on October 2, 2006, in Fiji and then continued in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The film was released on DVD internationally in 2008 and in the U.S. on August 25, 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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