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"Higher Ground" (2000): :  -- Flooded communities may take after the town of Valmeyer, Il., which moved to higher ground after being devastated by floodwaters. The move may be tough but necessary, as Ben Tracy reports.

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Seasons:

1 full episode list

Release Date:

14 January 2000 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Family more

Plot:

A group of troubled teens are sent to a boot camp.

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User Comments:

A emotional roller coaster of a show more (85 total)


Cast

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Joe Lando ... Peter Scarbrow (22 episodes, 2000)

Hayden Christensen ... Scott Barringer (22 episodes, 2000)

A.J. Cook ... Shelby Merrick (22 episodes, 2000)

Kandyse McClure ... Katherine Ann 'Kat' Cabot / ... (22 episodes, 2000)
Jorge Vargas ... Augusto 'Auggie' Ciceros (22 episodes, 2000)

Meghan Ory ... Juliette Waybourne (22 episodes, 2000)

Kyle Downes ... Ezra Friedken / ... (22 episodes, 2000)

Jewel Staite ... Daisy Lipenowski (22 episodes, 2000)

Anne Marie DeLuise ... Sophie Becker (17 episodes, 2000)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Cliffhangers (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:

60 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color


Fun Stuff

Goofs:

Continuity: After Kat sees the blood on a shirt in Juliette's dirty laundry, she runs into the room and tears off the sleeve of Juliette's shirt. In the next shot, it's not torn, and in the following scenes when Juliette is being taken away and in the lodge it also isn't torn. (episode 11) more

Quotes:

Katherine Ann 'Kat' Cabot: I am not a problem to be fixed, but a work in progress. more


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13 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
A emotional roller coaster of a show, 5 July 2000
Author: coverme6 from Allentown, PA

Current TV shows reflecting the lives of teenagers are getting

pretty dismal and irritating because they all centralize on the

same themes of dead-end relationships and sex. "Dawson's Creek"

is a nauseous example. However, with the new hit TV drama

"Higher Ground," the genre of the teen drama is getting a new

image and personality. Hayden Christianson and Joe Lando head

this rugged show about emotional troubled teens who are sent to

a boot camp called Horizon. Their primary objectives in that one

camp is definitely not to fish, eat toasted marshmellows or to

sing songs around the campfire. Oh no. These adolescents are

sent there to encounter their inner troubles and to find a

better well being. In other words, those kids are being trained

to "straighten up and fly right."

With great dramatical performances by the cast, "Higher Ground"

is not a typical kid soap opera. This show is

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