this be a light hearted come of age story that manage to succinctly weave the dark undercurrent of bad parent into the mini adventure . center around 2 sibling and josh and sam be a very charming and watchable family film pepper with some good and funny moment and that should raise a chuckle or two . constantly be ship from back and forth and between their divorce parent and take it toll on josh and sam and eventually reach break point when their mum decides to marry and live in france for a year with a french guy . leave them with no option but live with their father and his new family . for simpson fan and their father character bear an uncanny resemblance to ned flanders without the moustache . youre just wait for him to say okily dokily . the old of the two sibling invents an outlandish story and persuade his younger brother and whose character be brilliantly deliver by noah fleiss and to go on the run together head for the sanctuary of canada to avoid be send to africa a a child warrior . of course the young sam swallow the story hook and line and sinker and off they go meet up with the and exceedingly delicious libert maid and alison ( martha plimpton ) along the way . josh and sam reminds me of the irish movie call into the west which manage to weave some old irish myth and legends into the story . both be charm and both be watchable . both be not the sort of film that i would pick out of a a rental store shelf and but and if you stumble across them on tv both have great child act performance . both tierney and fleiss carry this with a little help from martha plimpton .