‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ film adaptation opens in theaters Friday

By CBS 13

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

The cinematic adaptation, also called “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” written by Luke Paradise, directed by Andrew Kightlinger, and produced by Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions.

It premiered in July at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville.

The movie, which was filmed not in Maine but in New York, recounts Fendler’s true story of getting lost in the Katahdin wilderness for nine days at age 12 in 1939.

The book was required reading in Maine schools for decades.

Fendler died in 2016 at age 90.

The film stars Camden-native Caitlin Fitzgerald, Paul Sparks and Luke David Blumm as Donn Fendler.

There will be a number of showings across the state, including at Smitty’s Cinema locations in Sanford, Windham and Topsham.