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''[[The Journey of Natty Gann]]'' is a 1985 Walt Disney Pictures film starring Meredith Salenger and [[John Cusack]] in one of his earliest major roles.
It's 1935, and with [[The Great Depression]] in full sway, finding a job is a matter of life and death, so when single dad Sol Gann gets an offer to travel to the state of Washington to work as a logger, he can't possibly afford to refuse - even though it means leaving his daughter Natty behind in Chicago until he can afford to buy her a train ticket to come join him.
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Unfortunately, that takes time, and in the meantime everybody but Natty herself starts coming to the conclusion that she's been abandoned. When she realizes that she's about to be handed over into the custody of the state, Natty takes off on her own, hopping a train and heading west to try to find her father herself, no matter what obstacles she runs into along the way.
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Mostly averted. While many of the adults Natty meets are unhelpful, so are many of the kids, and a few adults - such as Charlie the blacksmith and the woman at the milling operation - go out of their way to help her reunite with her father.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Natty escapes the reform school via ''some'' kind of vent, anyhow.
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* [[A Boy and His X]]: A girl and her wolf.
* [[Canine Companion]]: Wolf again.
* [[Con Crew]]: Early in the film, Natty acts as an impromptu Shill for a street vendor played by [[Scatman Crothers]]; finding him haggling with a woman over the price of a pot he is trying to sell her, Natty pipes up that she'll pay him his asking price for it, putting an end to the woman's efforts to talk him down to a lower amount.
* [[Daddy's Girl]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Harry.
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* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Several:
** Natty is first seen [[One of the Boys|sneaking off to a bathroom to smoke a cigarette with several boys of about her age]], and getting into a fistfight with one when he calls her father a "commie."
** [[Jerk
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: Wolf ''always'' knows when trouble is coming.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Charlie the blacksmith.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Sol doesn't take it well when he thinks that Natty has been killed.
* [[Heroic Dog]]: Wolf again.
* [[Jerk
* [[Missing Mom]]: Natty's mother died at some point prior to the film.
* [[Misunderstood Loner
* [[One of the Boys]]
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Natty.
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[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]
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