A kiddie sci-fi picture without a mean bone in its body, this sweetly sentimental morality tale with monsters will entertain preteens without making parents want to wash its mouth out with soap. Small-town 12-year-old Spencer (Joseph Mazzelo) just
hit a rough patch on the road to adolescence: His widowed, workaholic dad (Richard Gilliland) is never home, teenage sister Stacey (Ashlee Levitch) is obsessed with boys, the school bully (Joey Simmrin) is out to get him, and he breaks into a mortifying cold sweat in the presence of Michelle
(Lauren Eckstrom), the pretty classmate who shows every sign of being willing to go on a date with him, if he could just work up the...
Released:
1998
Rated:
PG
Length:
101 mins