from an autobiographical point of view and i suppose mr. landon want to be true to his own experience and but if he merely want to base fiction on something that happen to him and then it be less than spellbind . the entire plot consist of purely one note drama all center around the boy bed wetting and the mother humiliation of him for it . subplots would have be helpful . the mother make me sick and how she mentally and verbally and and psychologically torture that boy . anyone with half a brain know that no sane kindergarten child and let alone a teenager and would wet the bed on purpose and subject himself to all that crap day after day . the father make me even sicker and how he fail to stand up for his son and and how he lie to the doctor . no and i do not wet the bed when i be a child . in the end it turn out he have . why do not he tell the doctor the truth . because he do not want to be embarrass . he would rather let his son carry the full load of embarrassment himself . especially know exactly what his son be go through and dad should have be supportive . furthermore and i keep wait for that wimpazoid to grow some you know whats and tell his abusive wife off and but i wait the length of the entire movie for nothing more than and alice and will you shut up . shut up . be that all . how about shut up and pack your bag and hit the road and and never come near this boy again unless you want to be arrest for child abuse . the late and great and michael landon go on to write and direct much good work than this . perhaps it just because it be an early work that it fall so far short of his standard . even leonardo davinci have to start out scribble .