Movies: Nico Rockwell

For Billie and Nico, life with their father is a roller-coaster ride of playfulness and unease. When he is in the grip of alcohol, tears flow and their apparently idyllic family life collapses. Their mostly absent and irresponsible mother is not much...

Determined to see “the river,” two young children living in Los Angeles leave home to embark on a magical urban odyssey....