User reviews

This show, set in the Manitoba town of Gimli, has undefinable but authentic Canadian prairie air. It's the story of a boy sent to live with his uncle, his mother's twin, and his aunt, after the death of his mother.

The main characters, Eric, Johnny, AJ, and Zoe, maintain the high standards of outstanding Canadian acting, and the supporting cast is, as always, both amusing and dead-on.

My kids love to watch our tapes of this - they identify strongly with Eric. I like it myself because it's got that slight spin of Canadian insanity that makes it so different from mainstream US "pop" TV. Not every episode has a moral lesson; not every moral lesson is pounded into the ground; and sometimes, as in real life, there's no resolution to the problem.

"A Day In The Life" is probably my favourite episode. If you get a chance to watch this show, make time to do so.

There's a saying that I think fits here aproperiately: If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

My Life As A Dog (1985) is one of the best films to come out of Sweden, and this television series holds nothing of the quality that made the movie so special. I am surprised to find the author of the novel, Reidar Jönsson, involved in the development of this below par series.

Probably, the better film never carried out on the childhood: that period of the life that could come to be the most happily unhappy (or the more happy unhappyly) of our existence. The form in that Hallstrom succeeds in passing continually of the drama to the comedy and the other way around is absolutely brilliant.