Well, I don't know how big Lion's Gate Entertainment is, but they're not exactly MGM. Making a movie is not cheap; filming it in the Canadian Arctic probably tripled the price. Choosing an unknown teenage Eskimo girl with no previous acting experience, who spoke English as a second language, to play the female lead may have been a brilliant stroke of artistic genius but it probably cut the potential audience in half. Setting it in Canada instead of Alaska ensured that it would never see mainstream distribution in the USA. And they probably lost a lot of the teenage male audience by not having the female lead prance around in the nude.

So I don't particularly begrudge them the $30 I paid for the DVD. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />