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Director: Julian Gilbey Writer: Julian Gilbey Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Thorp, Hannah New With rock climbing movies steadily entering the mainstream in recent years, it was only a matter of time before the flurry of prestige entries faded into B-movie territory. Summit Fever, from British director Julian Gilbey. , dabbles in adventure, disaster, and romance, but lacks depth or emotional nuance altogether, resulting in an overlong, cheesy mess that indulges in exactly the cheap-climbing clichés that the best directors have striven for. to avoid. The plot is about 22-year-old Michael (Freddie Thorp) and his friend Jean-Pierre / JP (Michel Biel), avid mountain climbers who spend a summer in the Franco-Swiss region of Chamonix to mark the so-called Big Three: Matterhorn. , the Eiger and Mont Blanc off your bucket list. Michael, with a tragic past and reserved demeanor, is the more risk-averse of the two. But JP's influence, plus the accessories of Chamonix Leo (a jerk Ryan Phillip...