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Hillary Wolf, David Strathairn, Margaret Whitton, Griffin Dunne, Patricia Kalember ... see more see more... , Adrienne Shelly , Dan Futterman , Sean Blackman , Cory Danziger , Angelina Estrada , Googy Gress , Jim Haynie , Denis Heames , Buck Kartalian , Keith MacKechnie , Ben Savage , Trenton Teigen , Michael Murphy , Ivory Ocean , Paul Short , Joseph D'Angerio , Bill Erickson , Reilly Murphy , Jenny Lewis , Meagen Fay , Jessica Seely

Joan Micklin Silver tries her mighty best to wring something substantial out of Frank Mugavero's banal sit-com screenplay concerning the effect of divorce on the divorced parents' off-spring. Hillary ... read more read more...Wolf stars as Laura Chartoff, a lonely thirteen-year-old girl who is the victim of multiple parental divorces and remarriages. She lives with her current stepfather Keith Powers (David Strathairn), a cool businessman, and her flighty, self-absorbed mother Melinda (Margaret Whitton). Her biological father David (Griffin Dunne) is a struggling artist separated from his second wife Barb (Patricia Kalember) and is now living with a younger woman Stephanie (Adrienne Shelley), who is pregnant with twins. After a fight with her mother and stepfather, Laura runs away to a rustic cabin in the woods being built by her older stepbrother Josh (Dan Futterman). When she spots Keith and Melinda walking up the road to the cabin, Laura dashes off into the forest. Reported missing, all of the members of Laura's extended family converge at the cabin to try to find her. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: Joan Micklin Silver

Release Date: May 8, 1992

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DVD Release Date: September 13, 2005

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  • December 20, 2009
    "Step Kids" morphed into this. Not that great.
  • November 5, 2007
    Slightly good! I remember watching this as a child.
  • June 5, 2009
    no one ever knows what i'm talking about when i ask if they've seen this movie...so obviously a lot of people are lame.
  • August 13, 2007
    I was a big fan of this movie when I was younger. It was pretty interesting watching the whole family dynamic change throughout the movie as people joined and were switched around within the family.
  • July 17, 2007
    I had a HUGE cruch on Hillary Wolf growing up, so naturally I like this movie. It was originally called StepKids, but they chnaged the name because it wasn't politically correct enough.
  • March 23, 2007
    enjoyable...I think every kid has the fantasy of running away at least once in their childhood...and maybe even afterward.
  • March 1, 2007
    Cute family drama. This is a great story about mixed up families. Everyone who has had step-family can relate to this movie.
  • July 24, 2006
    The main character laura has to be my fav since her and me are alike. Yeah back when i was young i was a tomboy too and looked at the world the same way she did. Like it was full of shit. This is a good movie that i don't think got enough credit.

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