Synopsis
Alabama Moon (2009) is a family adventure film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Tim McCanlies and based on Watt Key's novel of the same name. Eleven-year-old Moon Blake (Jimmy Bennett) has spent his whole life in the Alabama woods with a father who taught him to hunt, forage, and distrust every arm of the government.
When his father dies unexpectedly, Moon's only plan is to reach Alaska — the one destination his dad always named as safe. Getting there pulls him through a children's home, a confrontation with a determined local sheriff, and a pair of friendships he never expected to want. John Goodman appears as an experienced woodsman who crosses Moon's path along the way.
The film sits squarely in family territory, but it handles its subject with enough weight to avoid feeling soft. A boy raised to see the modern world as a threat, learning that other people might not be the enemy — that is the actual story here. Watch Alabama Moon online on iFILM.
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