The misadventures of a boy sent to live with his aunt in Canada, where he and a group of unlikely heroes take a stand against the ski resort infringing upon his new home.

When his father dies, Jeffrey (Ryan Reynolds) is sent to live with his aunt Charlotte (Glenne Headly) in Canada. Once there he leads his aunt and his friends in staging a non-violent hunger strike to try to save his aunt's house from being demolished to make room for a ski resort.—Ellen Davis