Michael Rapaport credited as playing...
James Busbee
- [first lines]
- Ben Eagle Narrator: [narrating] This is O'Hare, California. Back then it was nothing more than a sleepy fishing village, with a hill at the end of Main Street. Like you see in postcards. My story takes place on the home front, in the midst of World War II. That's me, the little fella.
- Photographer: [motioning to the youngest]
- Little Boy: Closer?
- Freddy Fox: [ribbing him] Stop causing trouble, you midget.
- Ben Eagle Narrator: Nobody in that town liked me much.
- Photographer: One, two, three.
- [flash]
- Ben Eagle Narrator: I was eight years old. But the story really starts the day I met my dad. My only friend. My partner.
- Nurse Barbara: He's a boy!
- James Busbee: Wow! He's so...
- Nurse Barbara: What? Little?
- James Busbee: Well, he'll grow. Right?
- [last lines]
- Pepper Flynt Busbee: [upon reuniting with his dad] Partner! I got the boots you really wanted. It's me, partner.
- James Busbee: [receives the boy's hug] Partner.