Little Fugitive

In Brooklyn, twelve year old Lennie and 7 yr old Joey have a courting standard of brothers their age. Joey usually desires to loaf around with the large youngsters – Lennie and his buddies, Charley and Harry – and even as Lennie loves his little brother, he and extra specifically his pals think Joey is a pest. On the eve of Lennie’s birthday, the real beginning date while Lennie’s buddies are making plans on taking him to Coney Island to celebrate, an emergency arises with Lennie and Joey’s widowed mother, in which she has to take an overnight trip. That experience forces Lennie to have to take care of Joey at home rather than going to Coney Island, wherein their mom wouldn’t permit Joey to head anyway. To get again at Joey for ruining their Coney Island plans, Lennie and his buddies determine to drag a prank on him: with what they inform Joey is a real gun secretly acquired from one in all their fathers and letting him play with it with a “actual” bullet, Joey fires, along with his eyes closed, with Lennie’s pals similarly telling Joey that he shot Lennie lifeless and that he better get lost before the cops placed him in the electric chair. After the achievement of the prank, Lennie feels a few remorse for what he did to his brother. Lennie goes thru different emotions while he finds that Joey has now not long past domestic, his whereabouts Lennie has to discover. Lennie has just over twenty-four hours to locate Joey earlier than their mom comes lower back home, then whilst he would get in problem for no longer taking care of his brother properly. What Lennie doesn’t know is that Joey, taking the emergency money their mother left for them, has run away, coping with to take the train to Coney Island. Joey’s principal priority in his time at Coney Island is to take gain of all the fun matters that the park has to provide a seven 12 months vintage, organized a laugh or otherwise. That priority may additionally exchange if one of a variety of factors take place, amongst which includes jogging out of cash, if it gets darkish and he has to find someplace to sleep, and/or absolutely everyone realizes that he’s there on his personal and can flip him into the authorities, he nonetheless believing, somewhere way inside the again of his thoughts, that the police are out to get him. tt0046004