Twelve - year - old Jacob Felson (Luke Prael) is sent
away by his stepfather to the mysterious school run by a peculiar couple, Dr. Sherman (Will Patton) and his dominating wife (Tammy Blanchard).
Not exact matches
It is there that he's approached
by a 15 - year - old boy named Gary (Sheridan), who is looking for work, willing to pretty much do anything required of him to put money in his pocket and, hopefully, give him a bit of freedom to get
away from his physically abusive alcoholic
stepfather, Wade (Hawkins, who died shortly after filming).
Thirteen - year old Nepalese Lakshmi has been sold as a sex slave
by her
stepfather, but she refuses to let horrific abuse smother her dreams of escape or quench her desire to find a better life
away from the degradation and humiliation of her situation in India.
Sadie finds solace in the one thing her real father, Sam Sugarspear, left behind: a book about an imaginary land, ruled
by a king who grants wishes.One day, when her
stepfather's cruelty reaches unimaginable depths, Sadie runs
away and hides inside a crevice in her beloved willow tree.