Moving from the big city (LA) to a backwater town is always difficult, but especially for the one doing the moving. After her dad’s death, Beth Easton and her mother, Kate, move to the house left to the family by a deceased aunt. Kate meets up with several old friends, but Beth has none. Slowly, however, she makes friends, despite the lack of a nearby mall or anything else to do. Soon she meets up with two boys fighting … except one isn’t a boy, but a girl. The girl, Jody, is shunned by her peers as a “bad kid.” As the film progresses, we see Jody as the apparent victim of a bad relationship between her own widowed mother and Ray, a man who, like everybody else, grew up in the town. Somehow, Beth sees that Jody isn’t all that bad; “she just needs a friend.” Beth sticks by her, even when Jody is blamed for almost killing Beth. Jody has a dream, though, a dream of finding lost gold in Bear Mountain, left there by a legendary woman named Molly Morgan. Jody has a map, and she has a “…
Release Date: 3 November 1995Runtime: 94 min
Stars:
- Amy Kirk
- Andrew Wheeler
- Anna Chlumsky
- Ashleigh Aston Moore
- Brian Kerwin
- Christina Ricci
- David Keith
- Diana Scarwid
- Dwight McFee
- Gillian Barber
- Jesse Moss
- Jewel Staite
- Kimberley Warnat
- Polly Draper
- Roger R. Cross
Director: Kevin James Dobson
