Writer Joe Eszterhas ("Basic Instinct," "Flashdance") and producer Ivan Reitman ("Kindergarten Cop," "Ghostbusters") team up in this juvenile adventure about two boys from vastly different backgrounds, a white kid from the suburbs and an inner-city black youth, who find themselves entangled with killers for hire and other mayhem. Featuring Darius McCrary from the TV hit "Family Matters."

Trouble abounds when a pint-sized innocent from the suburbs befriends a savvy street kid and their adventures involve them with a hired killer.

Trouble abounds when a pint-sized innocent from the suburbs befriends a savvy street kid and their adventures involve them with a hired killer.

Writer Joe Eszterhas ("Basic Instinct," "Flashdance") and producer Ivan Reitman ("Kindergarten Cop," "Ghostbusters") team up in this juvenile adventure about two boys from vastly different backgrounds, a white kid from the suburbs and an inner-city black youth, who find themselves entangled with killers for hire and other mayhem. Featuring Darius McCrary from the TV hit "Family Matters."

Writer Joe Eszterhas ("Basic Instinct," "Flashdance") and producer Ivan Reitman ("Kindergarten Cop," "Ghostbusters") team up in this juvenile adventure about two boys from vastly different backgrounds, a white kid from the suburbs and an inner-city black youth, who find themselves entangled with killers for hire and other mayhem. Featuring Darius McCrary from the TV hit "Family Matters."

Consumed by grief when his father is felled by a heart attack, 11-year-old Obie (Ricky Busker) runs away from his white, upper-class surroundings. He ends up in a particularly dismal Chicago ghetto neighborhood where, after enduring a beating administered by gang members, he is befriended by streetwise black youth Jeremy Scam Henderson (Darius McCrary). The two become partners in crime, leading to a deadly situation involving a pair of professional hit men. Just when it seems things can't get any worse, they do. Robert Prosky co-stars as a slimy pawnbroker. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.