Synopsis An elderly Southern widow, Mattie Rigsbee (Ellen Burstyn), begrudgingly starts to acknowledge that she can't live on her own. When Mattie becomes friends with the town dogcatcher, Lamar Benfield (Mark Hamill), she is also introduced to his orphaned nephew, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). Although Wesley has been in trouble with the law and incarcerated for auto theft, Mattie sees potential in the boy and tries to point him in the right direction by allowing him to live with her.

Director Arthur Allan Seidelman

Screenwriter Clyde Edgerton, Paul Tamasy

Production Co Mitchum Entertainment

Rating PG-13 (Language|Some Violence)

Genre Drama

Original Language English

Release Date (Theaters) Dec 17, 1999, Original

Release Date (DVD) May 31, 2005

Runtime 1h 50m

Sound Mix Dolby

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