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It is sort of funny when two Los Ageles pals, Alan (Jake Sandvig) and Ben (Jason Ritter) pose as ar attendants a funeral services at a cemetery and make off with the cars. We soon
learn that this is the pair’s lifestyle. Call them slackers and thieves. But the idea of the film, directed by Brian Crano, is that they really have heart.
They get to prove this side of their nature when they befriend a boy, Kelsey, (Chandler Canterbury), who is being neglected by his struggling mother Lynnette (Carrie Preston). Cute but withdrawn boy. Lots of sympathy. When the kid’s mother commits suicide, Alan and Ben take over, and in the face of opposition, they must fight to keep the boy against the will of an education honcho who stands in the way. Rebecca Hall plays Alan’s sister.
The film has a good-natured ambiance, but we are asked to accept too much of a very contrived plot, which involves the salvation of Alan and Ben as decent human beings as well as setting up a future for Kelsey.
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