This was a sad movie. It was about a boy who had aides, and the kid who lived next to him. Eric the healthy kid eventually befriends this the kid next door. This is a good movie for family, but I would say it a tear jerker. Eric is picked on a lot by the kids at his school and is pretty much a loner but no wonder with his mother. Both mothers where single parents.
Eric decides he going to find a cure for aides for his friend and they try to get down to New Orleans or somewhere down there. After trying many different things, one of which was poisonous and almost killed his friend. You’d think the mother wouldn’t want Eric around her child because it just be to dangerous to keep him safe, but the two became close like brothers.
Toward the end of the movie both of the mothers have a conversation, and it seems Eric mom changed some. I think this movie got one strike with our 3 strike rule but I am not sure if it was or not my Hubby said he heard it but I heard something else.
This movie shows true friendship and also touches on the misconceptions of what aides is and how it is caught. It wasn’t very clear how he got aides, it was made in 1995 when things where still not really understood about it.
There was a couple of funny senses and a couple that made me think of the boy who cried wolf to many times and then got ate up. In the end this was not really shown to be the case but there was still a lesson in the movie that could be learned. I wouldn’t recommend this for a child who is under 11 years old or one who is not mature enough to understand about life and death.
It not like watching a show on Lasik, it’s more of a real life, this can actually happen.