I thought that everyone's acting was great. James Caan played a man who used his son to act like a lost boy to gain access to houses so his father could rob them. His son was still a young boy but was tired of his father's thefts, when he noticed that one family he went to as a lost boy had kept guns. I won't say anything more except that he let his father in when the family was still awake and he was supposed to wait until they were asleep. James Caan as the father was very evil. Dennis Quaid as the son was very kind. This movie shows that biology does not necessarily determine behavior. You have free will. I felt the ending was sad.