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Runaways (2004)

Runaways (2004)

Drama Romance

Your Life Can Change

Release Date: 2004, January 7
Directors: Brent Bambic
Countries: United States of America
Production: Stronghold Productions
Cast: Carmine Caridi, Arif S. Kinchen, Austin O'Brien, Lydia Blanco Garza, Anthony "Ace" Thomas, Demetrius Navarro, Karen S. Gregan, Esteban Powell, Joseph Aguilar, Mya Michaels, Jack Forcinito, Marion Kerr

Overview:

Steve Moore is sixteen and lives with his younger sister, mother Cheryl and her boyfriend John, in a modest house in Bakersfield, California. An abusive and often intoxicated man, John rules the household, and though his attacks on Steve result in emergency hospital visits, Cheryl's loyalty is to her boyfriend. To protect her relationship with John, she "ditches" her son, having him arrested and locked in a correctional "mental" facility, before coercing her older brother Burt, who lives in Hollywood, to take him. Steve quickly discovers that Burt cannot even provide temporary lodging, but an administrator at his new high school directs him to a shelter for runaway kids where he soon learns to navigate his way.

Keywords:

independent film child abuse domestic violence marijuana drug use abusive stepfather drinking troubled youth runaway student