Brandon Chance

If you haven't seen this yet, go rent it. A heartwarming account of a young girl making her way across the country to get back to her father during the depression. One of the earlier reviews was talking about how all of the bad things that happen to Natty are inappropriate for a disney movie, but I think that those are the things that make this film so great. It is a gritty, realistic, non sugar coated story. The things that are shown to happen to Natty happen every day and have been for many many years. They bring drama and "heart" to the film, and make it what it is. Combine the latter with unbelievable cinematography of America, very good performances, and you are left with a very memorable, timeless film. I only wish that Disney would release it on DVD in widescreen. With such great widescreen nature cinematography, having to repeatedly watch the "chopped up" pan and scan version on vhs is killing me!! If you release it we will buy it!!!

I saw this movie at the midnight screening on it's first day of release with 2 other friends. After reading the unbelievable positive reviews on IMDB, we decided to go. Needless to say, we were very dissapointed. The movie plays just like a novel...which is to say it is much too long, drawn out and complicated to be a movie. There were way too many characters, languages, etc. Towards the middle of the movie, I just started waiting for it to end. Also the entire movie looks like it was done in a computer. All of the reviews are so good on IMDB, they have to be some kind of plant by the movie company....see the movie and decide for yourself....