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The mountain-climbing movie premieres this Sunday 6/18 on A&E at 8 PM EDT and then is rerun several times that evening and the next week.

Future Airings:

Touch the Top of the World (2006), AETV Jun 18 10:00pm
Touch the Top of the World (2006), AETV Jun 19 12:00am
Touch the Top of the World (2006), AETV Jun 19 02:00am
Touch the Top of the World (2006), AETV Jun 23 10:00pm
Touch the Top of the World (2006), AETV Jun 24 02:00am
Touch the Top of the World (2006), AETV Jun 24 04:00pm
Touch the Top of the World (2006), AETV Jun 25 12:00pm

OK, I caught about the middle hour of "Touch the Top..." If Bruce's part is any bigger it's in the first or last 30 minutes. This is what I'd describe as a Lifetime movie for men. i.e. it's very wholesome and inspirational, in a made-for-tv movie sort of way. The blind guy is very nice, very good-looking, has to encounter the usual obstacles (he's a new young teacher whose class is at first intimidated by him) but makes friends, behaves like a regular guy (rock-climbing w/ his buddies, drinking beer, chasing young babes - which he has his sighted pals explain if they're hot or not! ) and then falls in love with a fellow teacher based on her beautiful voice and the personality that goes along with it. She gets into climbing, they get married, start a family, he becomes a world-caliber mountain climber, and he has the opportunity to scale Everest. Bruce turns up as his supportive gray-haired dad who announces that the federation for the blind (forget the official title) will underwrite the expedition to the tune of a quarter million, since this will prove many things to the world. Wife is worried for him, his best friend backs out because of the risk, but he goes to Everest, and holds his own. Bruce as Dad apparently has knee-problems and so hikes the first leg of the climb (which is of course just a hike through the snow really) to show support, then turns back. I got bored right when they're preparing for the final leg, with only 1 day to go before the weather will get too bad for them to continue.

We already know how it ends, so there's not too much suspense - hence my boredom. One interesting bit: climbers feel Everest itself isn't nearly as hard as other climbs: it's just the lack of oxygen, and the weather.

Bruce had all of 3 or 4 lines in the hour I saw, but I bet he's in the first few scenes, like maybe teaching his son how to climb when he's younger.

No clue why/how Bruce ended up in this; he has no connections to anyone associated with it, although his buddy Joe LoDuca did the music. My guess is that either the casting director has worked with him before, or one of the producers has always been a fan, or possibly it was filmed either in Oregon (or nearby across the border in Canada) and he simpy was in the vicinity, and available.

Future Airings on A&E:

Fri. June 23rd - 10:00 pm and again at 2 AM
Sat. June 24th - 4:00 pm
Sun. June 25th - noon

From a review at zap2it.com :

"Lucas' eccentric Granny (Lily Tomlin) and the blowhard ant Fugax (Bruce Campbell) also turn in amusing performances as their wacky supporting characters."

And from BlogCritics.org:

"I would be remiss if I failed to mention the presence of the B-movie god, Bruce Campbell, as the pompous scout ant, Fugax. Campbell is enough of a reason to see anything at least once, and he doesn't disappoint here, bringing a hammy ant to life."


This is hilarious - Bruce is getting as good or better reviews than Julia Roberts and Nicholas Cage!