@azanti0029 (July 2021) wrote an excellent review - the first one I read - that cleared up a few things for me, specifically that I couldn't see how a 20 year old Joshua Rush could play 11 year old Eli. Discovering that the movie was actually made 6 years earlier (ie when Joshua was 13 or 14) has solved that mystery. That reviewer did get one detail wrong - the dying brother was Rick, played by Bailey Chase, not Tim (Drew Powell).
Another mystery - the cast list on here says the older brother John was played by an uncredited Joseph Aviel, whose pictures show him as huge (tall and muscly), nothing like the John in the film, who looked more like Marco James who is listed as playing the teenage John.
Finally, who on earth came up with the description of this film as a Comedy? I was scrolling through Prime looking for something light to watch at the end of the day, and saw this "comedy" staring Adrian Grenier - just the ticket, easy on the eyes, and light! Fortunately it was such an engaging story that I forgot that it had been listed as a comedy, until it was over and I saw the promo page again.
Despite the mysteries relating to cast and designation, this is a film well worth seeing.
Another mystery - the cast list on here says the older brother John was played by an uncredited Joseph Aviel, whose pictures show him as huge (tall and muscly), nothing like the John in the film, who looked more like Marco James who is listed as playing the teenage John.
Finally, who on earth came up with the description of this film as a Comedy? I was scrolling through Prime looking for something light to watch at the end of the day, and saw this "comedy" staring Adrian Grenier - just the ticket, easy on the eyes, and light! Fortunately it was such an engaging story that I forgot that it had been listed as a comedy, until it was over and I saw the promo page again.
Despite the mysteries relating to cast and designation, this is a film well worth seeing.