The Spring (2000)

Is it possible that our society places too much emphasis on physical youth? This is the loaded question posed by director David Jackson’s The Spring (2000), a movie that asks the interested observer to put aside his disbelief in the fountain of youth. A man and his son on a rejuvenating white-water rafting expedition inadvertently happen upon a spring, the flow of which makes new again that what has become old. While the notion of remaining spry and virile for dozens of decades to come is a tempting one, the idea of bottling the magic potion and reaping all the riches of the world is an even greater enticement to Dad and Son. Unfortunately, the locals have other views and threaten the would-be entrepreneurs with extinction if they attempt a return to the outside world.