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©2001
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002
When 19-year-old John Groberg is sent on a three-year mission to Tonga, he has no idea what he's getting into. Just getting to Tonga is fraught with danger and unbelievable obstacles. Once there, he finds himself in the midst of a culture as remote to him as the island is to his Idaho Falls home. Not understanding the language, and lonely for his fiancee Jean, John faces suspicion, distrust, typhoons, tidal waves, mosquitoes, and other perils of man and nature as he reaches out to the people of Tonga
Based on the memoirs "In the eye of the storm" by John H. Groberg
Director of photography, Brian Breheny ; editor, Steven Ramirez ; music, Kevin Kiner ; costume designer, Barbara Darragh ; production designer, Rick Kofoed
Christopher Gorham, Anne Hatheway, Joseph Folau, Nathaniel Lees, Miriama Smith, Alvin Fitisemanu, Peter Sa'ena Brown
MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and brief disturbing images
Also issued on VHS
DVD, Dolby, Region 1 encoding
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