Great Movie

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2003)

SPOILER within
This movie reminded me so much of a short story that I read in high school. It's about a homeless man who wanted a place to stay for the winter so he decided he would go to jail. Warm home, free meals. So he went around doing all these crimes and turning himself in. But the cops would never buy it or throw him in jail...Finally at the end he goes into a church and he decides he's going to change his life. Tomorrow he would make himself presentable and try to get a job and everything...and then the cops come in the church and arrest him for loitering! Furlong's character is a lot like the bum in that story in that in the end he decides to change his life and he gets it anyway. I could some up the end of the movie in two words: "too late" Anyways it's an excellent movie. It shows true tragedy in American youths.