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HUH - I'm a little puzzled about the user review that ridiculed this movie as a typical run of the mill "feel good" Hallmark movie. This movie is a real to life story about a charity called "Safe Harbor Boy's Home" in Jacksonville Florida. According to them this movie is extremely accurate with the exception of a large wave depicted for effect in one scene. Over 800 troubled youth have passed through their doors since their inception. They are the only parents many of these boys have ever had and many of these boys still call and send them cards for special days. I had looked this information up when the movie first aired, because this charity is in Jacksonville,FL and I live in St Augustine just to the south. If you want to watch something that is real, that tugs on your heart strings give this movie a watch.

I probably enjoyed this movie so much, because I'm an avid reader of old books and recognized this story the minute I saw it. This movie plot was taken almost verbatim, including most of the character names and main events from an old Cape Cod story by author Joseph C. Lincoln. The book was titled "The Women Haters" and the original copy-write was 1904 . A few years ago another one of his more popular novels "Captain Erie" was made into a movie called "The Golden Boys" in which David Carradine played the leading role. It's great seeing some of the old books enjoyed by a younger generation even if only in a briefer form as a movie.