Director: Michael Seater and Writer: Paula Brancati have created an engaging story of six old friends getting together for their annual cabin in the woods by the lake getaway for food, frolicking, and fun. So at movies opening we know six of these people have a past together only this time two strangers are thrown into the mix by two of the usual's. A very young girlfriend of one of the boys and a new boyfriend of one of the girls.

With six old friends and two new 'unknowns' staying all together in the cabin soon opens fractures in their friendship and emotions begin to come to the surface. A test of wills and jealously begins to arise. Their longtime friendship begins to dissolve and who will side with who becomes the question. (It's like a game of volleyball, eventually there is a goof-up and tempers get raw.)

I found this story to be of great interest due to the mix of personalities and the unknown level of loyalty to each other between the old friends. Just how this story will end becomes the question. And that is where the director and writer completely fail in this story. The ending actually made little sense to the rest of the story. Suddenly out of nowhere the plot becomes a mystery of disappearing friends - is something evil afoot in the woods? Or did the writer and director use the missing persons as symbolism for the end of friendship? What? In life friendships come and go, some last others are brief, each person has their own life and sooner or later it takes different direction.

What started as a very interesting mix of people just falls flat at movies end.

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