Sheryl Lee, Tania Raymonde, Joe Pichler, Jesse Plemons, Christopher McDonald ...( see more  see more... ) , Tom Arnold

12 year old Lily Bobbit moves to Medda, Ala, and immediately makes an impression on the residents when she and her friends team up to outsmart a con man, the town is changed forever.

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PG, 105 min.

Directed by: Mark Medoff

Release Date: October 18, 2002

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DVD Release Date: April 22, 2003

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  • March 22, 2009
    Based on a true story this takes place in the 1940s in Alabama where a boy who's father was killed in the war has a new girl move in next door that touches the life of everyone in town. Enter into that one dirty rotten scheister who tries to rob the town of their savings. This ...( read more)screen-play is from Truman Capote's short-story by the same name but takes quite a few liberties in the changing of the story. Capote's book sticks more to the actual story about, "when everything seemed beautiful, like children on their birthdays". Very good performances by a large cast of children as well as by Tom Arnold who plays the flim-flam man.
  • July 29, 2008
    this movie has character. i love the detail, the actors personalities, & also I love that this story actually has a moral.
    it is
    extraordinarily original.
  • June 4, 2008
    I loved this movie.I liked when the children went looking for the con artists and the tied one of them on the back of a tow truck and the other was locked in the trunk of a car. Hilarious. Anyways that little girl was talent and a little too dramatic (lol) but played a wonderful...( read more) role in the movie.:)Still don't have a clue why the movie is given that name. oh well...
  • June 21, 2007
    I love this movie! Lily Jane is a 13 year old who is more grown up in her manner then alot of adults are. She defends those that are in need, she tries to right the wrong, etc. but she is also just a little girl in the fact that she likes to play around as well. The girl Tania Ra...( read more)ymonde plays her very well. She may not have the whole sothern accent down but thats cool because you can't expect her to be perfect. People say that she lip synced *spell check* very badly and I don't agree with this since I thought she was actually singing intill I read somewhere that it wasn't her singing. Oh well I still love the song. She does have a sort of muscular quality to her but that is good which means she can play a young southern lady or a butt kicking girl....lol will look good in a dress or pants. :) If you don't like it then you don't but those who read reviews don't let that be your review watch something first before you judge it.
  • August 12, 2006
    OMG!!! THIS MOVIE WAS SO GOOD!!!

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