In a near-empty orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, an eight-year-old who lies between a dream state and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about 's years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin's imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation. (the above states the caretaker - who is actually the priest - is reading about a years-ago evacuation. In the movie, the evacuation is taking place as the boy lays dying!)
Anthony Edwards, Ben Foster, Claire Forlani, Clark Gregg, Daryl Hannah, Graham Beckel, James Woods, Jon Gries, Josh Barker, Kyle MacLachlan, Mark Polish, Mark Twogood, Marshall Bell, Michele Hicks, Mike J Regan, Nick Nolte, Peter Coyote, Rick Overton, Robin Sachs, Steve Kramer
Drama, Fantasy
