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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Spanish, Subtitled
Guys had ducktails. Cars had fins. War was over and America was on a roll. But 1950s life wasn't all fun and games--especially for Toby Wolff and his divorced mom Caroline, free spirits whose cross-country travels end in the Pacific Northwest, where life will be better. They hope.
"The movie is very involving." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Editor's Note
The story of a boy and his free-spirited mother in 1950's America who together try to make her new marriage work, hoping to conform to a husband and father who is cruel and old-fashioned.
Plot Summary
A film based on Tobias Wolff's much-praised autobiography about his troubled youth.| Caroline Wolff, divorced and with no job prospects, takes her son Toby on an aimless journey across America. They stop for a while in several towns, where Caroline gets involved with different men, but they always end up back on the road, running -- until Caroline meets Dwight Hansen, a military man whom she believes will bring stability to their lives and help raise Toby.| But Dwight proves to be a sadistic dictator, determined to impose a rigid and cruel discipline on Toby. When the boy finally cannot take it anymore, he looks for any escape... even if it means he'll have to fight Dwight to get out.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Surround Stereo | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Widescreen Version | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 9/14/2004 |
| Running Time: 115 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1993 | | Catalog ID: 24619 | | UPC: 00085392461929 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...[De Niro's Dwight] is so well defined and complex that he gives point to everybody and everything around him..." 04/09/1993 p.C10Entertainment Weekly
"...[DiCaprio fights De Niro] to an honorable draw, something few performers, and no other teenager, could do..." -- Rating: A 09/18/1998 p.92 Variety
"...Nicely acted....De Niro brings both a rough charm and ferocious power to Dwight....Leonardo DiCaprio is excellent..." 03/15/1993 Chicago Sun-Times
"...The movie is very involving..." 04/23/1993 p.39 USA Today
"Undeservedly underseen....[A] great phooey-on-the-'50s memoir..." 05/24/2005 p.3D Washington Post 7 of 10
Barkin's succulence and De Niro's showboating lend sizzle and ferocity to the proceedings, but the film draws its poignancy from 18-year-old DiCaprio's performance... - Rita Kempley
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