Runaway

Michael Adler has run away from the family house in the suburbs, taking his younger brother Dylan with him. They settle into a cheap motel room in a small town where nobody knows them. Dylan stays in the room all day while Michael takes a job at the convenience store on the corner. For a while it looks like it might work; something starts between him and Carly, a co-worker, and Michael almost believes he has built an ordinary life. But what they left behind in that house follows them. Tim McCann's film uses its eighty minutes to open up slowly why the two brothers ran, and it leans on weight rather than shock. Aaron Stanford carries being the older brother like a load, and a cast that includes Melissa Leo and Robin Tunney holds a small budget picture upright.