A strong friendship forms in a small town between a creative 10 year-old girl with a difficult home life and an adult mentally retarded man. Timothy Hutton directs Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson and Cathy Moriarty in this small, overlooked film.
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Ten-year-old Harriet (Evan Rachel Wood) lives with her alcoholic mother and promiscuous sister in the family's rundown motel. Harriet desperately wants to escape her difficult life and devises all sorts of outrageous plans to run away, until Ricky (Kevin Bacon) comes to town. Now, she has found a soul mate in Ricky - a mentally challenged man - who shares her desire to get away to a new life. However, everyone around the two are suspicious of this unlikely friendship and are determined to put a stop to it.
Academy Award winning actor Timothy Hutton makes his directorial debut with this heartwarming story of an unlikely but unforgettable friendship.
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