even though this be a well told story and i find it too unpleasant . the main subject be child abuse and which be never fun to see a sordid topic . add to that a lot of profanity by the drunker abuser husband and a gd by a little kid and no less and this movie turn me off as far a ever see it again . also portray in here be punk pick on the two little boy and another unpleasant viewing experience . the realism of the story take a swan dive when one of the boys fly away on a home make airplane . give me a break . the only positive and enjoyable part of this movie be see the nice and loving and touch relationship between the two young brother and play by elijah wood and joseph mazello . the latter become a familiar face in the next couple of year with big role in jurassic park and shadlowlands and the river wild . wood and of course and do not hit it big until a decade later but and he make it very big in the lord of the ring trilogy . those two kid and and narration by an unbilled tom hank and be the only facet of this film i like .