In america
The movie starts out with Sarah and Johnny Sullivan driving to the U.S. border from Canada, with their two daughters Ariel and Christy. Christy who is narrating the movie through her camcorder like a diary. The Sullivan family is trying to get into America to start their lives over after the loss of their son Frankie, who died of a malignant tumor in his brain. The only memory of Frankie that's left is what Christy has recorded on her camcorder. They drive into the U.S. past the immigration agent passing off that that they are just visiting. Driving through Time Square with these unbelievable looks on their faces, like " I cant believe were here." They finally end up to their new home in New York in this run down neighborhood, at this broken down apartment building. F
In which they ended up making friends with. If the baby stays in her longer it can cause Susan to die, and if the baby is taken out now the baby has a lesser chance of living. They walk into their new home with wood floors; pigeons flying around and just dirty as can be. illed with drug addicts, homeless people, and just covered with poverty. And that's how she wants us to remember her. In the movie they show it was one life being taken for another to begin. Few moments they clean up the apartment and furnish it with a fresh coat of paint, and furniture found around town. On the girls first Halloween they go trick or treating in the apartment they live in a knock on every door. It is not easy to basically start over from the very bottom, the parents making the best of the situation and the girls going along with everything making the best of everything also. While being put in a catholic school by their parents. The closing of the movie Christy is playing her camcorder watching Frankie when he was alive and closes it and says she's not going to view it any more the only memories that she will have of him are the good ones in her memory. So the baby comes prematurely, and Johnny has no money to pay for the hospital bills which have came up to 30,000 dollars, while Mateo their new friend is taken in to the hospital because he is so ill. Not one person would open the door except for one man, a painter who lives below them who was dying of aids. The mother starts out working at an Ice Cream parlor, while Johnny is taking any audition he can try to pursue his dream of becoming an actor.
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Christy Christy,
Johnny Sullivan,
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