Divided between divorced parents and feeling unwanted by both, 12-year-old Josh (Jacob Tierney) convinces his younger brother Sam (Noah Fleiss) that Sam is a 'strategically altered mutant' programmed by the Pentagon. After hearing at an airport stop between parents that their mother has remarried and thinking they've killed a man who menaced them, the boys run away together. This is a pretty slim premise on which to hang a road movie and, indeed, this is a pretty slim road movie at that, only barely interesting and tending towards repetition. Tierney and Fleiss are competent young actors, but none too charismatic and there's no emotional pull for the audience in staying around to see what happens to them. Martha Plimpton, Chris Penn and Udo Kier are some of the too-few people along the way, but only Stephen Tobolowsky as the boys' father creates a character who seems to have a life outside the movie.

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