The Journey of Natty Gann

(1985)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 178 votes

Genres: Adventure, Family, Drama

Year: 1985

Runtime: 101 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Jeremy Kagan

Cast: Мередит Селенджер, Джон Кьюсак, Рэй Уайз, Lainie Kazan, Скэтмэн Крозерс, Бэрри Миллер, Verna Bloom, Bruce M. Fischer, Джон Финнеган, Jack Rader

Plot

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.

Natty Gann is a 12-year-old Depression-era girl whose single father leaves her behind in Chicago while he goes to Washington State to look for work in the timber industry. Natty runs away from the guardian she was left with to follow Dad. She befriends and is befriended by a wolf that has been abused in dog fights, hops a freight train west, and is presumed dead when her wallet is found after the train crashes. Dad gets bitter and endangers himself in his new job. Meanwhile, Natty has a series of adventures and misadventures in various farmhouses, police stations, hobo camps, reform schools, and boxcars.