Since a tragic accident left him hideously scarred seven years ago, Justin McLeod (Mel Gibson : Lethal Weapon) has hidden away in his cliffside retreat. Meanwhile the locals have delighted in painting him as a perverted mad man with an horrific past.

Twelve-year-old Chuck Norstadt is also an outsider. Alienated from his family, he awaits the day he can go to a boarding school far from home - but he has to pass his entrance exam first. Then by accident, Chuck meets Justin McLeod, Instead of a horrible freak, Justin turns out to be the friend and tutor Chuck always needed. That Summer, in the inspiring tradition of `Dead Poets` Society`, Chuck and Justin discover a friendship which enables them both to face the world that has for so long rejected them.

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