TV-14 | 1h 44 min | Drama, Family | 2018
You’re orphaned only when everyone gives up on you and you give up on yourself. That’s central to director Sean McNamara’s touching movie about coping with the pain of loss and abandonment.
In spite of its name, McNamara’s film is about three orphans, not just one.
Orphaned Shelly (played by 12-year-old Alexa Nisenson) is on the run from physically abusive foster parents who love welfare-support checks more than the children under their care. Hungry, cold, and afraid, she takes refuge in a stable on the property of Ben Crowley (Jon Voight), a cantankerous old former horse trainer, who’s a bit of an orphan himself. More on that shortly….