, 1h41 Directed byJeremy Kagan OriginUSA GenresDrama, Adventure ThemesChildren's films ActorsMeredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise, Lainie Kazan, Scatman Crothers, Verna Bloom Rating69% Set in 1935, the movie tells the story of a 12-year-old tomboy girl, Natty Gann (Meredith Salenger). Out of work because of Depression-era unemployment, Natty's widowered father (Ray Wise) parlays his surefootedness into getting a job as a lumberjack. In order to get hired, he travels from Chicago to the state of Washington. He tells Natty that she will have to look after herself for the time being. Having no mother, Natty is left in the care of Connie (Lainie Kazan), the insensitive woman who manages the hotel Natty and her father had been living in.