Jason Naylor

A teenage boy is torn between his love for an injured Canadian goose that he has found and his agreement to fatten and kill it for an approaching Thanksgiving dinner for his neighbors.

1959年、オレゴン州の田舎町に暮らす12歳の仲良し少年4人組、背が低いゴーディ、リーダー格のクリス、メガネのテディ、ふとっちょのバーンは思春期を迎え、親や兄弟に対する愛憎や将来の不安などそれぞれ悩んでいた。ある夏の日、彼らはクリスの兄ら不良グループから、行方不明になった少年の遺体が森にあるという噂を聞く。遺体を発見できれば英雄になれると興奮した4人は、こっそり家を抜け出して探索へ出発する。

Chris is an insecure boy who, after an encounter with a 203-year-old bookworm, begins developing his self-confidence; he does things the wrong way: derrierewards, frontwards, upside down, inside out, etc.

A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.