I didn't get it either - until my own brother died two years ago.

He died in a scuba diving accident. We told his older nephews and nieces what actually happened. We told his youngest nephew and niece - the 'Littles' - that 'Uncle Steve was swimming the ocean - and he swam up to Heaven.'

Whether or not you're crazy about this movie, I promise it isn't trying to suggest that hurling yourself off a cliff in a little red wagon is a viable alternative to child abuse.

In fact, it's not even trying to suggest that anything remotely like that actually happened in the movie.

Here's what happened: Bobby died at the hands of the King. Years later, his brother Mike didn't want to tell his kids the full story - so he made up a story about Bobby flying away in a Radio Flyer wagon.

The movie isn't advocating suicide or anything like that. It's just a story about how a father chose to tell his kids why they never met their Uncle Bobby.

Right or wrong, it's also what we decided to do - because we loved my brother and the Littles.

Elijah Wood(Lord of the Rings) and Joseph Mazzello(The Pacific) are two brothers Mike and Bobby that live with their divorced waitress mother(Lorraine Bracco of the Sopranos) as she marries a mean spirited alcoholic known as "The King" (Chuck's Adam Baldwin)

But when Bobby gets abused and realizing no way out there for him, but he and Mike devise a plan over to get on the radio flyer thing and have Bobby fly to safety.

It is a sad movie but it is cute at it's best.

Even though this was a well-told story, I found it too unpleasant. The main subject is child abuse, which is never fun to see - a sordid topic. Add to that a lot of profanity by the drunker-abuser husband and a GD by a little kid, no less - and this movie turned me off as far as ever seeing it again.

Also portrayed in here were punks picking on the two little boys, another unpleasant viewing experience. The realism of the story takes a swan dive when one of the boys flies away on a home-made airplane! Give me a break!

The only positive, enjoyable part of this movie is seeing the nice, loving and touching relationship between the two young brothers, played by Elijah Wood and Joseph Mazello. The latter became a familiar face in the next couple of years with big roles in Jurassic Park, Shadlowlands and The River Wild. Wood, of course, didn't hit it big until a decade later but, he made it very big In The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Those two kids, and narration by an unbilled Tom Hanks, are the only facets of this film I liked.