...  Barrymore’s three months long experience shooting Big Miracle was more like “into the Zen” than into the wild. Usually an Alaskan adventure summons up images of snowmobiles, bears and crashing glaciers. Barrymore said “I’m a Cali-girl through and through, but was it just nice feeling when not to be in the busy rush of Los Angeles,” her stint in Anchorage, where she shunned Internet and emails in favour of letter-writing and reading. Shooting for the film took place in the fall of 2010, and it could not have come at a good moment for ...