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| Director: James Redford
Actors: Brendan Murphy (viii), Max Madore, Ruben Blades, Dana Delany, Stanley Tucci
Studio: Screen Media
Category: DVD
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 56491
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD27297D
ISBN: 1417043253
UPC: 025192729720
EAN: 9781417043255
ASIN: B0007PALWA
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: May 24, 2005
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Product Description
A boy who loses his parents in a planecrash and is taken by his uncle who then leaves him for ten years in care of a latino family. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/26/2005 Starring: Ryan Merriman Ruben Blades Run time: 107 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: James Redford
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 'Coming-Of-Age' Film Deserves More Recognition September 7, 2007
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one coming-of-age film I really liked and respected. Most of them are not "my cup of tea." However, this one features nothing but likable characters, including the teens. Yeah, they're not perfect; they have a few "moments," but mostly Ryan Merriman ("Eddie") and Paula Garces ("Francesca") are good kids.
The adults are even better, just wonderful people. Dana Dalaney ("Margaret") and Reuben Blades ("Ernesto") play a couple who adopts young "Eddie" who loses his parents in a small- plane accident. Stanley Tucci ("Frank") has a key role as a mentor of the boy, a guy who leaves Eddie when he's young but comes back and teaches the now-17-year-old how to fly.
Language-wise, there as almost zero profanity for the first hour, but there were cases of it in the last third of the movie. The photography is nice in here, too, especially for a film, I suspect, was low budgeted. This little-known film should be better-known. It's a nice story. I really can't imagine anyone watching this film and not enjoying and respecting it.
 Save your money August 29, 2007
Backdraft (New Hampshire)
I purchased this video because I liked Ryan Merriman when he was on the TV series Veritas. He must have been desperate for money when he signed onto this dog of a movie.
Paula Garces Steals The Show December 14, 2006
James A. Dean (Arlington, TX United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Most know her from "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle", but Ms. Garces takes a strong dramatic turn in this movie and steals the show. Looking even more beautiful in this time piece, she makes you wish that she was in every scene. Excellent movie and well worth the bargain basement price it is being offered on here for.
Spin June 29, 2006
Sheryl D. Eckhart (Bakersfield, CA)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Fast shipping and item was in great condition. Seller shipped and delivered item in a timely manner.
Growing Up Is Very Hard To Do August 28, 2005
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
SPIN takes a road much traveled - the coming of age tale of a child whose parents are suddenly absent - but the result is much stronger a story than most in this genre. Based on the novel by Donald Everett Axinn and adapted for the screen by writer/director James Redford (yes, son of Robert Redford, but strong enough a talent not to need to depend on shadows!), SPIN is an evocative moment in history (the 1950s) when the world was more quiet and young people would work their ways through the maze of adolescence without clouds of outside threats. This, then, becomes more poignant and sensitive a study of one lad's growing up to become an adult facing mirrors of those faces from the past and the present.
Eddie Haley (Max Madore) is very young when his parents die in a plane crash and is placed in the care of his parent's workers Margaret and Ernesto Bejarano (Dana Delaney and Ruben Blades) at the decision of his pilot uncle Major Haley (Stanley Tucci) - a man whose own demons have left him seemingly invulnerable to intimacy and family, electing to move away from the Haley ranch and its responsibilities rather than raising Eddie. Eddie's companion as a child is Francesca (Marissa Baca) who, while not an orphan, is motherless and living with a cruel father. They bond and in addition to the very supportive Bejaranos provide Eddie with as much footing as he is able to manage.
Move forward to Eddie as a teenager (Ryan Merriman) and he has become a mild punk, floundering around seeking meaning to life and afraid of relationships - fearing he will be ultimately deserted. Francesca (Paula Garces) moves back into town from Mexico and gradually the two become close and involved: Eddie's demons and issues riddle him while Francesca's equally brittle demons seem to make her stronger. Major Haley returns, is at first greatly resented by Eddie until the Major teaches Eddie to fly a plane left to him by his departed father. The relationship that develops between the two is as strong as it is difficult. A tragedy involving Francesca and her father occurs resulting finally in Eddie's ability to feel mature emotions and follows his courage and his heart to change his and Francesca's lives.
Redford keeps this potentially saccharine story in tight reins, never allowing bathos but always sharing a view that each of us is human and capable of errors, but equally capable of recovering and resolving consequences. The cast is uniformly strong with Tucci giving one of his finest and most subtle performances to date. Merriman is young and shows great promise: Blades and Delany are seasoned veterans and bring a realistic rapport that adds to the credibility of a story also dealing with ethnic prejudice. The cinematography by Paul Ryan is excellent - some of the best aerial photography outside of the usual war scenes on film. Recommended, not because it is a great movie, but because it is an honest one and the first example of James Redford's seemingly generous talent. Grady Harp, August 05
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