Alabama Moon Page #2

Synopsis: Moon Blake is raised by his loving but government-paranoid father Oliver in a hidden cave in the Alabama forests. Oliver dies from a leg wound he refuses to have medically treated, so Moon is told to move away, alone, and start a new home in the Alaskan wild-lands. Constable Sanders, however - the mean local cop - finds the boy with his father's guns, abuses him and has him locked away till majority age for 'assault' within Mr. Gene's grim Pinson home for boys. Moon soon makes friends with shy, sickly Kit and apparent bully Hal, then sets up a mass escape, on which only the trio actually follows through. Sanders fails to catch them, but the unforgiving elements reshuffle the cards dramatically. An uncle is meanwhile found.
Genre: Drama, Family
Director(s): Tim McCanlies
Production: Screen Media Ventures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
PG
Year:
2009
99 min
Website
167 Views


People like your pap. Poachin'

and trespassin' for a livin'.

Don't you ever talk mean about Pap!

Ever!

Well what ya goin' do about it?

That's what I thought.

Go!

Open the gate

Where is your daddy, kid?

Man, can you believe it's really him?

This way boy.

Alright, back on the line,

let's go.

Thank you Constable Sanders, the boy

will be safe in our care.

You best put restraints on this

boy before I leave.

- I don't think he's going anywhere.

- I telling you, this kid's an animal

He'll be on you like a wet cat

you do not tie him down.

This is our watchman, Mr. Carter.

He'll handle Moon from here.

A wet cat.

Mr. Carter, get this boy a

uniform and show him to his bunk.

Come on son.

The rest of the residents are in

the school trailers right now.

You got 16 boys in your bunk room.

Chances are,

you'll find a friend.

I'm not going to be here

long enough to need friends.

I'm busting out.

Soon as I find a way.

You better get that

out of your head.

You'll be fine and learn to like it.

Just follow the rules.

Come on.

What's this for?

You haven't started yet?

Turn that lever.

Let's go.

Find bunk 14.

That's you.

Those other boys will be comin'

out of class soon.

They come through here

to clean up for supper.

You hitch a ride with them

to the mess hall, alright?

You the one

all over the news?

Well, I don't know

about any of that.

- It said you fought a cop.

- I didn't want to go with him.

- He don't look so tough to me.

- I could whip you.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Everybody! To your bunks.

Now!

What do you do to him?

Well I hit in the balls

as hard as I could.

He curled up on the floor all on his own.

I guess you weren't

provoking him, were you Hal?

That's what I thought.

I'm tired of your mouth

and your trouble.

You be sleepin' outside again tonight,

without any supper.

The rest you...

go back to your business.

Miss Broomstead will ring the supper

bell in 10 minutes.

I can sit here?

My name is Kit

So ahh... How's your first day going?

Thanks

- What's that?

- uhh... my pills.

- Are they any good?

- No, it's medicine.

I have to take them

my whole life.

Yeah... you're supposed to put

those on to sleep in.

- How come?

- that's just the rules.

You put your uniform in the locker

that says 14, like your bunk.

- Hey, where are you going?

- Outside.

- Why?

- To sleep.

No. Hal's out there.

He wants to kill you!

- Oh yeah, I know. He already told me.

- No Moon!

Mr. Carter is not here to save you.

- What are you doing here?

- I like it better outside.

Go to sleep in my bed.

Pretend to be me.

- You crazy?

- No. I just like it better outside.

Well... Mr. Carter is gonna

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James Whittaker

James Whittaker (February 28, 1751 – July 20, 1787) was the second leader of the Shakers. Whittaker was born in Oldham, England and became a weaver and a member of the artisan and merchant class. He came to colonial America with Mother Ann Lee, who was one of his relatives and raised him. Father Jaems Whittaker, Father William Lee (Ann's brother), and Mother Ann Lee had lived in Manchester, England and were known as the First Parents of the Shaker sect. Whittaker was a powerful orator who drew many people to the Shaker sect.He became leader following the death of Mother Ann Lee in September 1784. Under Whittaker’s lead, Shaker communities were formed in New England and the meetinghouse was built at Mount Lebanon in 1785. Mount Lebanon would go on to become the center for all other Shaker communities, from Maine to Kentucky.Whittaker had suffered from physical abuse and traveled a great deal for the sect. Having a premonition of his death, he chose to die at Enfield, Connecticut Shaker community. After James Whittaker’s death in 1787, the American Joseph Meacham, with whom he had a power struggle, became the next leader of the Shakers. more…

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