Alabama Moon Page #6

Synopsis: Moon Blake is raised by his loving but government-paranoid father Oliver in a hidden cave in the Alabama forests. Oliver dies from a leg wound he refuses to have medically treated, so Moon is told to move away, alone, and start a new home in the Alaskan wild-lands. Constable Sanders, however - the mean local cop - finds the boy with his father's guns, abuses him and has him locked away till majority age for 'assault' within Mr. Gene's grim Pinson home for boys. Moon soon makes friends with shy, sickly Kit and apparent bully Hal, then sets up a mass escape, on which only the trio actually follows through. Sanders fails to catch them, but the unforgiving elements reshuffle the cards dramatically. An uncle is meanwhile found.
Genre: Drama, Family
Director(s): Tim McCanlies
Production: Screen Media Ventures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
PG
Year:
2009
99 min
Website
174 Views


done, Mr. Wellington.

Pap was wrong about you.

You are a good person.

Well there are a lot of

good people out there Moon.

I'm sure you'll find

that out for yourself.

- You ready?

- Yeah.

Bye, Mr. Wellington.

Come and visit us.

Yeah, I get down

that way.

Well I guess you're

my new Pap, right?

I could never replace your Pap...

but... I would like for you to

think of me that way, yeah.

So you came and looked for us?

Yeah, we went lookin' for ya.

Your dad just...

he kinda disappeared.

He didn't leave a trace

of where he was going.

Why did I we live

out there like that?

Why couldn't I

have any friends?

Well...

maybe that was what

he was running from, huh?

Moon, your dad...

just kinda did his own thing

and went his own way

and he didn't trust most people.

I think when your mom died,

he took it pretty hard.

- I lost a good friend too.

- Yeah, I heard about that.

I'm Sorry.

You know, Moon?

The important thing...

is that, you don't have to

feel like he did.

Most people don't.

Moon, this is your Aunt Sarah.

- And this is Alice.

- Hi.

And this is David.

- Hey.

- Hi.

Alice, tell him about

your mean hot chocolate.

Come on.

- Hey buddy, you okay?

- Yeah.

I was just going to write

a smoke letter to Kit and Pap

telling them where I was, and

how nice things are here.

But... I don't believe that smoke

letters really work anymore.

I bet they know.

Don't you think?

I bet they know.

You know Moon. We don't expect you

to just slide into everything here.

It's a lot to get used to.

especially coming from a background

as different as yours.

We'll just take it slow. I just know

everything's gonna be fine.

- Right?

- OK.

- Can I make hot chocolate?

- You bet you can. It's cold out here.

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James Whittaker

James Whittaker (February 28, 1751 – July 20, 1787) was the second leader of the Shakers. Whittaker was born in Oldham, England and became a weaver and a member of the artisan and merchant class. He came to colonial America with Mother Ann Lee, who was one of his relatives and raised him. Father Jaems Whittaker, Father William Lee (Ann's brother), and Mother Ann Lee had lived in Manchester, England and were known as the First Parents of the Shaker sect. Whittaker was a powerful orator who drew many people to the Shaker sect.He became leader following the death of Mother Ann Lee in September 1784. Under Whittaker’s lead, Shaker communities were formed in New England and the meetinghouse was built at Mount Lebanon in 1785. Mount Lebanon would go on to become the center for all other Shaker communities, from Maine to Kentucky.Whittaker had suffered from physical abuse and traveled a great deal for the sect. Having a premonition of his death, he chose to die at Enfield, Connecticut Shaker community. After James Whittaker’s death in 1787, the American Joseph Meacham, with whom he had a power struggle, became the next leader of the Shakers. more…

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