| Director | Jay Schlossberg-Cohen |
|---|---|
| Genre | adventure film |
| Runtime | 93 min |
| Country | United States |
Paul is a boy attending boarding school on a field trip with his class to the Natural History Museum. Noticing that Paul has separated from the rest of the class, the headmaster, Mr. Douglas, goes looking for Paul to find him staring at a statue of Bigfoot. Paul tells Mr. Douglas that he met Bigfoot last summer while vacationing with his dad, Will, a park ranger, at the natural park where he works.
Meanwhile, the sheriff who presides over the park is rallying people to hunt a mysterious large animal that mauled a deer. This includes Will and his Native American friend Jim.
Later that night, Paul sees a mysterious flashing purple light in the window of his dorm and looks outside to see Bigfoot standing in a cloud of purple smoke. Bigfoot tells Paul that his father is in danger and he needs to go help him. After a confrontation with Mr. Douglas, Paul runs away and hitchhikes to the park, and meets his father. They return to Will’s cabin to find a strange man inside. He introduces himself as Morgan, a big game hunter, whom the sheriff has hired to hunt the large animal.
Will, Paul, Jim, and Morgan travel through the park to hunt the dangerous animal and find a strange ruin filled with crumpled-up Coke cans and a radio playing rock music, which Paul says he left behind last summer. The four leave the ruins, with Bigfoot hiding and staring at them.
Eventually, it is revealed that the animal they are tracking is a tiger. Will tells Jim to take Paul back to school because he’s concerned the hunt has gotten too dangerous. Paul repeatedly tries to run away from Jim, and they reach a lake where they meet the ghost of a Native American elder named Red Hawk. Red Hawk asks to speak to Paul alone and tells him that he must tell Bigfoot to run away to the mountains, or he will be killed by Morgan.
After several other incidents, the characters regroup and chase the tiger, which has fled to an abandoned Western mining town. They track the tiger into mining tunnels, and Will shoots the cat with a tranquilizer dart. Elsewhere, Paul tells Bigfoot that he must run away to the mountains. Meanwhile, one of the tunnels collapses on Will. Paul pleads for Bigfoot to help, and Bigfoot saves him by pulling the rocks off.
Morgan sees Bigfoot running away, eventually tracking the creature to the lake where Paul met Red Hawk, but when he goes to shoot him, Red Hawk appears, temporarily blinding Morgan with an agate Bigfoot amulet. Red Hawk’s pet eagle then claws Morgan’s eyes out. He stumbles into the lake and disappears.
Paul returns to school, handing in his final exam to Mr. Douglas before the Christmas holidays. Paul tells him that only kids can see Bigfoot, but adults can see him too if they believe hard enough. Paul’s own Bigfoot amulet then glows orange, and the two of them see the creature in a cloud of purple smoke.