Boy, amazon is speedy! DVD came in yesterday, so I watched it last nite...boy! What a disappointment! That movie is a real dud! Bad acting, cinematography really bad, dialog very unclear,changed a lot and deleted many parts of the book......left me thinking, if i had not listened to the book, I would not understand this trite version of it! I am SO GLAD I did get the audio version of this book...as a lot of it is the verbal " thinking" of the little boy...something that the movie failed to do enough of. Jmho