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Standing Up is a american film of genre Drama directed by D.J. Caruso released in USA on 16 august 2013 with Chandler Canterbury
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Add to a movie listStanding Up (also known as Goat Island) is a 2013 American coming-of-age film written and directed by D. J. Caruso, starring Chandler Canterbury and Annalise Basso, and based on Brock Cole's 1987 Young Adult novel The Goats.
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Two kids, Howie (Chandler Canterbury) and Grace (Annalise Basso), are stripped naked and left stranded together on an island as victims of a vicious summer camp prank. But rather than returning to camp to face the humiliation, they decide to take off, on the run together. Grace does not know how to swim, so she holds onto a broken tree branch as he swims across the lake.Actors
Chandler Canterbury
(Howie)
Annalise Basso
(Grace)
Radha Mitchell
(Meg)
Val Kilmer
(Hofstadder)
Kate Maberly
(Margo Cutter)
Frank Hoyt Taylor
(Lockwood)
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