young elijah wood and joseph mazzello be outstanding in this excellent film about two boy who have promise to take care of their mother and and how they cope when their new stepfather begin beat the young boy . the support cast around the boy be top notch as well . the script really get inside the mind and heart of an imaginative child . it hard to believe wood could grow up to look anything like tom hank and but that nothing new in hollywood . that honestly my only criticism of the film .