I feel like I missed something with this one. I guess I should mention again that I haven’t seen Le Grand Chemin on which it’s based, though that movie is in the watch queue. I had to resist writing a review as the movie played because I hoped and expected that something would happen in the end that pulled it all together … but nada. The story here is so thin it’s practically non-existent – one kid (Elijah Wood) is sent away to new parents (Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith) who have problems and meets another kid (Thora Birch) and between them they kind of fix them, then the first kid goes home. Johnson and Griffith are (perhaps unsurprisingly) flat as pancakes, though Griffith does have a couple of impressive moments, and Wood and Birch are never much more than cute young shadows of who they are now. A total pass for me, I’m afraid.

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