It's everything a road picture is supposed to be: a life-changing personal journey, a quest, a bit old-fashioned and a hoot. Real-life father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O'Neal team up as slick con-artists Moses Pray and Addie Loggins in 1930s Kansas.
When "Moze" is unexpectedly saddled with getting the 9-year-old Addie to relatives in Missouri after the death of her mother, his attempt to dupe her out of her money backfires, and he's forced to take her on as a partner. Swindling their way through farm country, the pair are nearly rumbled by a burlesque dancer (Madeline Kahn) and an angry bootlegger.