Purely Joyful Movie!

Expected more

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

My six-year-old liked it, but I suspect children over eight will find it rather slow and tame compared with stuff like "Home Alone" (which I find rather offensive). Nothing to offend prudish parents here, no violence, bad language or supernatural events. Competent direction and camera-work so it did not look desperately low budget, though there were several sequences of kids walking or bicycling, or of moving cars or trains, which padded out the length to 90 mins without adding content. The young female lead was fresh and uncloying, but her cohorts were the usual stereotypes (fat boy, boffin, racial minority, etc).Lame plot, and maybe I dozed off and missed something, but the solution of the "mystery" seemed rather fortuitous.I give it 5 for children from 6 to 8, or for "old-fashioned" children a little older.