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An 11-year-old boy named North (Elijah Wood) tires of his parents (Jason Alexander and Julia Louis Dreyfus), [[Parental Abandonment|who never pay any attention to him]] even though he's a model student, athlete, and even actor. He legally emancipates himself from them, and [[Walking the Earth|wanders around the world seeking a new family]] with a deadline of Labor Day; if he doesn't find a new family by then, he will be placed in an orphanage. Along the way, he encounters parents that are [[Captain Ethnic|Texan, Alaskan, Hawaiian, Amish, etc]], and tries to blend in with each group of parents (well, not the Amish). He finally decides that his own parents are the best with the help of a guardian angel ([[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]) who uses [[Paper-Thin Disguise|several guises throughout the film]]. However a conniving kid friend of his, Winchell, used the publicity North's escapades garnered to rally kids everywhere to make their parents more subservient to them. Knowing that North reconciling with his parents would undermine this, he plots to have him killed.

 

 

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* [[Magnum Opus Dissonance]]: As stated under [[Doing It for The Art]], this was supposed to be Reiner's equivalent to ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Film)|The Wizard Of Oz]]''. [[Creator Killer|It wasn't]].

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The assassination plot in the final third is awfully dark for a light fantasy.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]

* [[Shoot the Money]]: [[Dan Aykroyd]] and [[Reba McEntire]] appear as the [[Everything Is Big in Texas|stereotypical Texan family]], and sing the film's only song, a parody of ''[[Bonanza]]'', despite not being a musical.

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