Four
orphaned brothers and sisters appear in a small town one night in the
summer. Henry, Jessie, Violet and
Benny are looking for a new place to live and where Henry can earn
money to take care of them. They are
afraid of their only other relative, a grandfather because they have never met
him and he wasn’t ‘interested’ enough to visit them while they still
had their parents. They find an
abandoned boxcar in the woods and they make this their home. Henry starts working for a doctor in
the town. He mows the grass, picks
fruit and vegetables. They are
happy and the love the boxcar.
They also find a dog in the woods with a thorn in his paw, he becomes their watchdog
and friend. Henry wins a race at
an event in the town and he wins $25.
Everything is going very well for them until Violet gets too sick for
them to care for her. Henry makes
the right decision to take her to the doctor’s house.
Henry
and the other children are having a great summer on their own. They don’t know that the doctor is on
their side and he is looking out for them. He has also seen a notice in the paper about their grandfather
looking for them. The children are very good and they really take care of each other. You want them to have a good life and find someone to take care of them. They need to be going to school in the fall and not worrying about their future. 4* (I really liked this movie)
86
min, Animation directed by Daniel Chuba, Mark A.Z. Dippe, Kyungho Jo with the
voices of Illenana Douglas, Mackenzie Foy, Zachary Gordon, Joey King, Jadon
Sand, Martin Sheen, J.K. Simmons, D.B. Sweeney, Audrey Wasilewski.
Note: Imdb 6.9 out of 10, 62% audience on
Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 5* with 63 reviews.
Special Note: I thought this film was about the children in London who were sent to the countryside because the Germans were going to be bombing the city in WWII? They were called the boxcar children because they were evacuated by train. I didn't look at the information about the movie before watching.
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