"The Kid", as in "Billy the Kid". But also the young boy, the kid who has to grow up quickly.
My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library, although she abandoned it at about 55 minutes. I stuck with it, I am glad I did.
I have long been a Vincent D'Onofrio fan, here he writes and directs, and also has a small role as Sheriff Romero. His daughter also has a role as Sara, her real mother is Greta Scacchi, one of most beautiful actresses of the 1980s and 1990s, and the daughter fortunately looks more like her mom than her dad.
The story of Pat Garrett's arrest and eventual killing of Billy the Kid is factual and it is portrayed here. But a fictional story is overlaid, of a boy named Rio who has to shoot his mean father who was beating his mother, then go on the run from his mean uncle, his father's brother. Along with his sister Sara. The boy has to figure out if he will pursue a life outside the law, or inside the law, which probably wasn't always easy in the 1880s.
The movie is worthwhile and good, for anyone who generally enjoys this genre of movie.
