The Cure

Eleven-year-old Dexter (Joseph Mazzello) has AIDS. But that hardly matters to Erik (Brad Renfro), an adolescent transplanted to Minnesota, where he becomes Dexter's neighbor and develops a kinship with him over the course of a summer. When the duo reads a tabloid article trumpeting a New Orleans' doctor's cure for AIDS, they set off on a raft trip down the Mississippi River -- à la Huck Finn -- in this wistful film from director Peter Horton.