I don't know how I missed it, I should have watched it earlier when it came. This is the movie, kinda my style, I love to watch without time barriers in any given time. As a children and emotional movie fan, I love it when both of them come together. Yes, I enjoyed this movie a lot than my friends who saw with me.A cute story with the bunch of cute kids who gave their soul to fill the fictional characters they played. This movie was based on the book of the same name and crafted by the director of one of my favourite children movie 'Secondhand Lions'.The movie had some flaws, I mean some serious flaws. In the opening where the Moon's father was trapped in a fallen tree that was leaning across the river was looked clearly a fake. Like that there were many others in the movie that resists us not to believe in what we see. Despite those defects rest were very pleasing to watch especially those location of Alabama.This movie was good as the recent 'Standing Up' unfortunately both of them were not recognised largely. All I say is don't miss if you get a chance to see it, especially with your niece and nephew. If you are a children movie fan probably you would love it. I heard there was a book called 'Dirty Road Home', a sequel to this movie (book) was written by the same writer. The movie based on it is in production now, I could not wait so long for it.

Simple but sweet. First phrase I mention about this film. For the family film, this film have lack of comedy and it's gonna be unusual for its kind lover. But in the fact, the film successfully bring us to its story, to feel the sadness, emotion, friendship and its drama. You will find the dead tragedy, a losing, to survive and to moving on. Moreover, center of view from this film is about a kid and his survival and adventure, and it really increase the power of drama. One more time I mention, this film is lack of comedy, the power is placed on the drama. This film is right to all peoples, especially for kid. It's simple. The message is easy to understand. It's fresh, nothing less, nothing. Suggestion: Watch it with your kid-heart position.

Set in Alabama but filmed in and around Covington and Mandeville, Louisiana, just north of Lake Pontchartrain. Also some in Fair Hope, Alabama. I saw it via Netflix streaming movies.Jimmy Bennett is the title character, Moon Blake. As the movie opens we see him pushing a wheelbarrow with a body in it, and digging a grave to bury his dad, 'Pap', who had just died. Then a short flashback scene shows how his dad was distrusting of everyone, particularly "the government" and taught Moon to never take anything from anyone, that way you'll never owe anything to anyone. They lived off the land, with a small cave on public land as their home. But one day while fishing Pap fell and broke his leg badly, with a broken bone protruding. His only option was to die soon from the infection.So the movie is really about Moon and what will become of his life now that he, maybe 11 years old, is now on his own. His dad had told him to go somewhere else to live his life in isolation, maybe Montana or Wyoming, or better yet, Alaska where a man could still get homestead land. So that becomes Moon's plan, Alaska once it warmed up. Moon was very resourceful, but had no idea what a journey to Alaska would entail.Out of the forest Moon's first encounter is with John Goodman as Mr. Wellington who does what any responsible adult would do, call the authorities. Moon ends up in a home for boys, surrounded with razor wire like a prison, but he is determined to figure out an escape. And he does. The mean guy in all this is Clint Howard as Constable Sanders who picks up Moon and sees that he gets to the home for boys. After Moon escapes there is an other scene where Moon outwits Sanders and the tracking bloodhound, eventually making the dog his pet.Not a great movie but young Jimmy Bennet carries it well. It ends with a good dose of family values.SPOILERS: As Moon meets other kids, including the warden's cute daughter, and some of the adults, he begins to have doubts of his dad's advice, to remain alone, hiding out, avoiding social contact. Mr Wellington turns out to be a lawyer and helps Moon with his issues. And in the end a family in Mobile, his dad's kin with two kids already, come to get Moon and take him in as part of their family. Moon hugs each, he has made the transformation and now accepts family and friends as a desirable state of life.

Alabama Moon is a lovable movie, as long as you can remember what's being a child and dreaming about a grand forest adventure, living off nature, standing by yourself, dodge bullies, defy all odds and make some great friends in the process.It is, as well, a film about dead, losing and moving on, in life. So fun? yes, simple? ditto, addressed to children? spot on, simplistic? no, I don't think so, the answers Alabama Moon gives to the great questions of life might be simple, perhaps too simple for an adult, but in a world who dodges anything related to death and loss a film that raised this question should not be easily forgotten.Watch with your 11 years old heart on.