![]() ![]() Or that, like voodoo magic, Heidi can whisper at a jar and guess the exact number of jellybeans in it. Somehow, viewers are expected to believe a 12-year-old with some lipstick could sneak into a Las Vegas casino, play a slot machine and win enough quarters to travel nearly 3,000 miles. The film attempts to defend its improbable plot as a result of Heidi’s supposed good luck. This complete 180 in personality is not the only aspect of the film that is questionable. ![]() A week later, after it is revealed they are related, he offers to be a real grandfather to her. When Heidi first meets Thurman Hill, he is belligerent and threatening, eventually ordering her to leave. ![]() In fact, many of the characters Heidi meets on her trip to New York are contradictory, like the bus driver who first eyes her with suspicion, then inexplicably vouches for her, or the owner of Hilltop Home, Thurman Hill (John Heard, “Home Alone”). Before she runs away, though, she throws a series of temper tantrums that feel unaligned with Heidi’s supposed selflessness and kindness. ![]() Suddenly spurred to discover her past when her mother conspicuously adds a new word to her extremely limited vocabulary, Heidi digs up old photos and follows the clues to a special living community, called Hilltop Home, in New York. It (Jessie Collins, “Revolution”), and their former neighbor, Bernie (Alfre Woodard, “12 Years a Slave”). Heidi lives in an apartment with her special needs mother, So B. ![]()
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