Bogus

A comedy about losing your heart, finding your inner child and meeting the one friend you've always tried to avoid.

Seven year-old Albert is the son of a Las Vegas circus performer. When she is killed in a car wreck, Albert is sent to live with his mother's foster sister, Harriet Franklin, a no-nonsense businesswoman struggling in New Jersey. Albert hates it with the dour Harriet, but takes refuge in the company of Bogus, a flamboyant, gentle, loving, and altogether imaginary Frenchman. With Bogus's help, Albert can perhaps come to terms with his mother's death, and Harriet with her own loss of childhood innocence.

Direction

Norman Jewison

Screenplay

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Jeff Rothberg

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Francis X. McCarthy Jr.

Alvin Sargent