Year: 2013
Runtime: 97 mins
Language: English
Director: Bill Muir
While dropping off donations at a foster home, a man captivates the children with a story about two teenage friends. They discover a mysterious, long-lost medallion that unexpectedly sends them hurtling back in time. Their adventure begins as they face challenges and unravel the secrets of the past, realizing finding the medallion was just the start of their journey.
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Daniel Anderson arrives at a foster home with donations, and when the children ask him to tell a story, he agrees. As he begins narrating, the scene shifts into the Lost Medallion universe, blending a present-day foster-care setting with an ancient-adventure saga that will unfold through the voices of the young listeners.
In the opening flashback, a man clutches an item wrapped in cloth and sprints from a pursuer. He digs a hole by a tree and buries the medallion, guarding it as a relic with the power to change lives. The tale then returns to the present, where Billy sneaks into his father’s archaeological site to help out, while his best friend, Allie, arrives with an old book. Billy isn’t much of a reader, so the two read the book aloud together, discovering that the medallion was meant to be buried in a different spot than his dad is currently searching.
Armed with a homemade metal detector, the kids trek into the forest to search for the mysterious artifact. They are watched from the shadows by two men from a rival archaeology company, each wielding their own detectors. The kids stumble upon the goons and choose a new route, ducking behind a sturdy tree as the detector screams. They strike gold—literally—digging up the medallion just as the rival hunters close in. The chase intensifies and spirals through the city streets; the kids fear they’ve slipped away, only to discover that the goons have beaten them home and have tied up Billy’s father.
In a desperate moment, Billy yells, >“I wish this whole mess had never happened!”< and the medallion pulses with light, hurling both Billy and Allie back in time by two centuries. They find themselves captured and brought to a village where the village king, Huko, seems enthroned by the medallion itself. The locals explain that the bearer of the medallion becomes the king, and they throw a coronation party to celebrate—until an enemy force arrives, led by the ancestors of the goons from the present. Everyone in the village is seized except for Billy, Allie, Huko, and Anui.
A river blocks their path and Allie is captured, forcing Billy to offer the medallion in exchange for her safety. After the exchange, the two friends leap over a waterfall to escape pursuit. Realizing they need help, they seek out an old wise man, Faleaka, who resides in the mountains. The wise man sets them on a path of trials designed to teach them how to defeat Cobra, the tyrant who terrorizes the island and holds the natives in fear, and to reclaim the medallion.
Their journey leads them to Cobra’s island, where the beach becomes a proving ground for their newly learned tasks. Tragically, on the beach, the wise man is struck by an arrow and killed, leaving the kids to carry on without their mentor. They endure capture again, and Billy manages a daring escape to reunite with the others in a harsh camp. Together, they use the lessons learned to engineer an escape for everyone living under Cobra’s oppressive rule. In a climactic confrontation, Cobra is defeated and, with the medallion in danger of being lost forever, is cast into a hellish pit along with the artifact.
Reunited once more, the four friends confront the reality that they may never return to their own time—the medallion has vanished from the world they know. Yet Billy realizes that their presence in the past means the medallion is still buried somewhere in this era, awaiting discovery again in the years to come. He revisits the place where he and Allie first found the medallion and discovers it again, its center jewel glowing as if longing to be whole. He places the jewel back into the medallion and hands it to the village king to trigger its power, which sends Billy and Allie back to the present.
Back in the present, Billy lunges at the goons who had tied up his father, only to be restrained by his father, who reveals that time itself has shifted—the goons are no longer evil. The story closes with Daniel finishing the telling of their adventure and underscoring a message of love and faith that survived the ages. The world of Lost Medallion has spoken clearly: even in the darkest moments, there is grace to be found. The tale ends with a quiet emphasis on love and the idea that stories, like time, can carry a deeper, abiding truth.
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