Father and daughter, who are all each other has, are separated in mid-Depression by fate and by no fault of their own. The daughter, played with impressive sobriety by Meredith Salenger, takes to the rails to rejoin her father in the Washington timberland, aided at various times on her trek by an adopted wolf and (less often) by a young but experienced freeloader. Improbable, enjoyable, almost immediately forgettable, it is old-fashioned even for a Disney picture, with several scenes you may feel you haven't seen in thirty or forty years: e.g., the eye-dampening farewell between human and wild beast at the edge of the forest: "Go on, there's where you belong!" There is also a palm-dampening scene, the likes of which you have perhaps never seen, of the work of a "topper" in a logging camp. With John Cusack; directed by Jeremy Kagan. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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