1871 New England. Two-week orphaned preteen Nat Blake, in his new circumstance, has been living on the streets of Boston with his more streetwise friend, fourteen year old Dan, who looks after Nat and who survives by his cunning and by stealing. Due to an event of living on the streets, Nat gets a benefactor in the form of John Brooke who pays for his schooling at Plumfield, a boys’ boarding school in the country owned and operated by John’s sister-in-law and her husband, Jo and Fritz Bhaer. (Description by IMDB)
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Runtime: 1h 38min
Release: 1998
Cast: Kathleen Fee, Michael Caloz, Mariel Hemingway
Director: Rodney Gibbons
Writer: Mark Evan Schwartz, Louisa May Alcott
