There's a junk man who rides a horse-drawn wagon through the streets and acts a sort of free, mobile garage sale, deliverer of babies, and occasional maker of mysterious potions. In contemporary America, it would be the summer you realize you're Goth, or the first time you see The Breakfast Club and realize you really, really identify with Ally Sheedy's character.Ĭompounding Doug's emo-ness is the fact that his hometown of Green Town, Illinois, is straight out of a Tim Burton movie.
And we mean like really alive, the kind of alive where you have to experience everything and feel everything and write it all down and memorize it because it's all so profound. Doug Spaulding is a twelve-year-old kid on summer vacation who unexpectedly realizes he's alive one day.
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