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Freddy leaves his pregnant girlfriend behind in Philadelphia. While on the road he meets up with Albert, a young kleptomaniac delinquent. Together they travel to see Freddy's uncle in a nursing home. Freddy learns from his uncle that the father who abandoned him has been let out of prison and has a job in Oklahoma City. Freddy finds his father working as a parking lot attendant, but his father doesn't recognize him. Freddy robs him, and lets him know who he is. Freddy and Albert then head towards Reno, where Albert says his mom has jobs waiting for them at a restaurant. Along the way the two stop at a carnival; there's an altercation and Freddy is hurt. They break into a church and spend the night. A Native American priest finds them the next morning and takes them to his home. The boys sit down for a meal with the priest's family. Freddy and Albert hit the road again, getting a ride with Katherine and her dog. Freddy soon realizes that Albert stole a dream catcher that had been hanging above a baby's crib in the priest's house. He gets angry and has a fight with Albert. When the two boys calm down, they all go to a motel. Katherine gives Albert some money to buy a gift for his mother, but he goes to an arcade instead. Back at the motel, Freddy shows Katherine a postcard sent to Albert by his mother. In it she tells Albert that she doesn't want to see him, and we (the viewers) learn that Albert's story about his mother waiting for him is a lie. Meanwhile, Albert steals a watch from a store. When employees attempt to stop him, he pulls a fake pistol on them and gets away. In the morning police show up at the motel; Katherine has already left. At the police station an officer tells Freddy that Albert will be put in the custody of Children's Services, and that he'll be charged with theft and assault. Freddy continues on alone to Reno to find Albert's mother at the restaurant where she works, but is told by the owner that she no longer works there. The owner asks him where's he's going, and he says, "Philadelphia". The film ends with Freddy riding in a van with a family.

A solid film with a good cast, especially the two leads. Throughout the film there are many beautiful exterior shots. The film also has a great soundtrack, with songs perfectly matching the moods of the scenes. Highly recommended.

I watched the movie with a couple of my friends. We waited for whole movie to something important to happen, the movie to really start, but no. Nearly hour and a half is wasted for pointless rampaging and meaningless dialogue.

The main guy, Fred, just happens to pair up with Albert, a teenage boy, who is one of the most irritating characters I've ever seen. He's a kleptomaniac, who just takes whatever he lays his hands on. Fred isn't much better, but at least he manages to keep his mouth shut most of the time.

They wander around USA driving with a stolen car, sometimes hitchhiking. Fred tries to get money from his uncle, because Fred is too lazy to actually find a real job, but it appears that his uncle doesn't have any. After that Fred decides - Albert is just hanging along - to find his father, to get some money from him. Actually he gets what he wants, since Fred steals some money from a parking house's cash desk, where his father is doing night shift.

Finally they - Fred and Albert - meet some random woman, and Fred doesn't even hit her. At the same time Albert fails stealing a watch from a local store. Police picks him up and send him to welfare authorities. After all the letdowns Fred just decides to go back where he left, and the movie ends.

If the movie had some sort of deeper message to the audience, it didn't make it obvious enough. There were some images of an actual dream catcher, but they simply threw it away.

No wonder that not that many people have seen this movie.