SYNOPSIS
Having won the Project Greenlight screenwriting contest and endured a documentary about his initiation into movie-making, Pete Jones delivered this sugar-coated paean to childhood and lost innocence. The concept of a 1970s Catholic kid trying to convert a Chicago rabbi's son to please God is not without its controversies. But Jones takes such a superficial approach to the differences in culture and faith that he neither offends nor enlightens. Bonnie Hunt rings true as the eight-year-old's mother, but Aidan Quinn and Kevin Pollak are much more predictable as the respective fathers of do-gooding Adi Stein and the leukaemia-stricken Mike Weinberg.
- Amara Balthrop-LewisCarly
- Kevin PollakRabbi Jacobsen
- Aidan QuinnJoe O'Malley
- Bonnie HuntMargaret O'Malley
- Eddie Kaye ThomasPatrick O'Malley
- Lisa DodsonMrs. Jacobsen
- Mike WeinbergDanny Jacobsen
- Adi SteinPete O'Malley
- Brian DennehyFather Kelly
- Peggy RoederSister Leonora Mary
- Martin HughesJimmy
- Ryan KelleySeamus O'Malley
- Lindsay LightKatie O'Malley
- Will MalnatiEddie O'Malley
- Kristie KelleyMarie O'Malley
- Etel BilligEsther
- John Gleeson ConnollyRoger O'Malley
- John SierrosJack
- Howard FriedlandJeffrey Jacobsen
- Dana Lynne GilhooleyAnnie
- David CostabileDoctor
- Frank FowleBobby
- Annabel ArmourSmoking Woman
- Jon FrazierFirst Base Coach
- Kate HendricksonNancy