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.
elderly woman, teen boy, uncle, widow, delinquent, reverend, emotional, endearing, florida, town, house, generation gap, unlikely friendship, small-town life, troubled youth, aging, coming of age, discovery, transformation, 1990s
His last movie when he was younger. Definitely an amazing movie
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