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I thought this was going to be another low grade, straight to video movie, but I was quite impressed. The photography, direction, and acting was well done. It was intelligently written and had well developed characters.

It is a coming of age story about a young man on the run from the law and the mob. He runs away to a Catholic school for boys and hides out. While there he gets a job and helps out with the kids. He teaches the kids right from wrong and in turn learns a thing or two himself. He befriends a priest who helps him choose the right path. In the end he gets the girl and lives happily ever after.

The story line to this movie is pretty basic and straight forward, but is enjoyable none the less.

Pretty terrible, but not entirely unwatchable. Another review mentioned "predictable" - and that's pretty much an understatement. One can make a game out of guessing what the next line will be. Every character is either a stereotype or archetypical - nothing real here to see. There's the good guy in a bad situation, the struggle between older and younger priest on acceptance and discipline, the repressed, sexually/emotionally deprived woman returning to the small town after failing in the big city, engaged to the jealous, hotheaded, feeble minded beau from her youth, the unredeemable bad guys, two "lost boys" looking for a sense of family - they're all here, and none of them with even the remotest spin of something new. From the first few minutes you can figure out exactly what will happen by film's end. The story isn't entirely lame, but direction, acting (even from a cast with some talent) everything is thrown together without skill. As to the storyline, we've all seen it plenty of times before, for instance in "Sister Act."

This is also one of those films where inattention to small details show up in an even more glaring light. (As example: the nurse and our hero drive into town but park several blocks away from their destinations (post office and hardware store) - yet both walk across empty parking lots for no apparent reason. Or the passage of morning to night during a scene that seemingly should occur in no more than half an hour. The movie is filled with that kind of stuff and then tags on an improbable denouement.

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