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Synopsis: Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Erik, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Erik also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. When they read that a doctor in distant New Orleans claims to have found a cure for AIDS, the boys leave home on their own, planning to float down the Mississippi river and find him.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Peter Horton
Production: Universal
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
PG-13
Year:
1995
97 min
1,126 Views


Get out of the road!

Go on now!

A**hole!

3 degrees to the right,

aim fire!

You missed!

Hey, how much did you pay for that f*ggot?

You guys took a wrong turn,

this is a no homo zone.

I ain't a homo!

And neither is he!

He got from a blood transfusion...

What tell what's that awful smell?

Well, you see we were walking across the grass

and we accidentally stepped in your mother.

What did you say?

You can't hit it us all with that!

I only be aiming it at you...

Come on then...

And what about your little brother, huh?

What about him?

When he fell of the Jungle Jim at school,

they'd to take him to the hospital,

he could've caught something in...

Yeah, but he didn't...

But he could've!

Then everybody be calling him

f*ggot and queer,

and he'd get sick and die!

And you got homo on his headstone,

and when your mother went

to bring him flowers,

she would see her little Eddie Horner homo,

You know the worst part of that would be?

probably he before he died,

a bunch of a**holes like you,

who ain't sick and thought

it might be fun just

to beat the sh*t out of him!

Come on man, let's beat!

Sorry you're sick...

Thanks!

What'd you do that for?

Get 'em!

So long faggots!

Don't you think we should slow down?

- How?

- Anyway would be fine!

Ma'am get out of the way!

- Move it!

- Move your ass!

Oh God!

Hold on! Go!

Go!

So they really think I'm a f*ggot.

Now all of a sudden I'm yelling

the same stuff at them.

But they know I'm not a f*ggot,

cause a f*ggot won't yell

a f*ggot back,

Now that's why you should yell f*ggot too...

Well, just wouldn't be right saying that...

Why the hell not!

They were nice to me at the hospital,

they played games with me...

You played games with homos?

Just talk about something else...

Sometimes I don't know about you.

What's that supposed to mean?

Nothing...

Do you wanna play Nintendo?

No... I'm getting kinda tired.

I think I should go take a nap.

We should work on the mud fort tomorrow,

you want to?

Okay.

Leave it...

Why can I eat in living room?

I don't get home for dinner that often

when I do, I want us to be together.

It's part being a family, isn't it?

You know some woman saw that little AIDS boy

down at the Peterson's yesterday..

It's in the newspaper?

No... Jan told me...

I've seen him in the backyard,

I didn't know he left the house.

The other day I heard him coughing.

I said I heard him coughing.

Oh, I don't think you have to worry about anything,

with that fence there,

you're not going to catch anything...

What if wants to come over and play?

Oh Erik, think of some excuse,

you're so good at that...

What if I bump into him out in the street?

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