James LeGros, sporting ridiculous braces, hams it up as a bumbling security guard. Bad touch!" Beals retains that Bambi look of delectable concern from Flashdance and manages to make her too-busy Mom rather poignant. Robards, son of Lauren Bacall and Jason Robards, Jr., has a funny, knowing moment with the boys, when he invites them to touch his rock-climbing scar and then abruptly terminates this activity with "Enough touching. Their dual courtship of her gives the film much of its sprightly, humorous flavor. Stewart has a coltish charm and a sweetly funny rapport with the pubescent cherubs (read: stooges) who are besotted by her (Corbin Bleu, Max Thieriot). The heist itself is pretty thrilling, but that street chase involving kids on go-carts and the cops is really superfluous and damned unbelievable. It's snappily photographed and edited and quite magnificently designed by Tom Meyer (although who knew bank vaults resembled the latest dance club?). Revamping a Danish film called Klatretosen, director Bart Freundlich makes Catch That Kid more absorbingly character-driven and less techno than most kiddie caper films. It's refreshing to see a girl front and center in a film like this. She plans to use the mountain-climbing skills she inherited from her now-paralyzed father (Sam Robards) to rob the bank where her mother (Jennifer Beals) works, to get the money necessary for an operation that will enable Dad to walk again. Their task: to rob one of the worlds most impenetrable banks to save an ailing father. Twelve-year-old Maddy (Kristen Stewart) is on a mission. Starring: Jennifer Beals, Kristen Stewart, Sam Robards Summary: They are specialists in their fields: a rock climber, a computer genius, a mechanical whiz.
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