A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.
Acting
Art Carney's late-career warmth anchors the whole thing.
Production
Actual Boys Town location gives unexpected documentary texture.
Director
Georg Stanford Brown
Art Carney
Father Michael T. O'Halloran
Jack Bannon
Father Lester
Anne Pitoniak
Maggie Scott
Darrell Larson
Hank Grogan
Reginald T. Dorsey
Winslow Denton
Shashawnee Hall
Randall
Casey Siemaszko
Andy Grainger
Jacob Vargas
Enrique Mendoza
Kristy Swanson
Stephanie Gamble
Brian Andrews
Toby Mason
Lillian Lehman
Anne Compton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Art Carney's final leading role before his death in 2003. He reportedly took a massive pay cut to work with actual Boys Town residents.
Aired on NBC as a 'movie of the week' during the 1986-87 season, part of TV's last gasp of earnest social-issue dramas before irony poisoned everything.
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