Movie
The Young Runaways
1978 · 100 min
A gentle, old-fashioned family adventure that mixes runaway kids with bumbling crooks, offering mild suspense and warm-hearted moments without real danger.
- Directed by
- Russ Mayberry
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Starring
- Anne Francis, Robert Webber, Gary Collins
- Overview
- Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their younger ones, Freddy & Margaret Jean, in a Los Angeles foster home. Infuriated by this, Rosebud talks Joseph T. into running away with her so that they can break their younger siblings out of the system, which sparks a manhunt, and an outburst of sympathy among kids everywhere. [Wonderful World of Disney (1954), Season 24, Episode 17]
- How it feels
- Earnest, warm, tense and melancholic. Measured and easy to follow.
- About
- Family, found family, survival, coming-of-age
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Russ Mayberry
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Starring
- Anne Francis, Robert Webber, Gary Collins
