Runaway Rhubarbs

Runaway Rhubarbs is a 2013 American Coming of Age Boyhood drama film inspired by the 986 benchmark genre setter classic Stand By Me.

The film is dedicated to actors River Phoenix, Brad Renfro and Jonathen Brandis.

It is written by Peter Craig and Ben Affleck as well co-written by other Affleck Casey and directed by Ben Affleck starring Callan McAulliffe, Daniel M. Hasan (in his second ever Hollywood feature film starring role), Brennan Bailey, Sterling Beaumon, Bérénice Bejo, Scott Adkins, Danny McBride, Colin Farrell, Richard Dreyfuss and Scott Caan.

It concerns the story of four 16 year old boys running off from the fictional Iowa Apartment Block of Rhubarb after they pay witness to the killing of a Rhubarb patron at the hands of a mentor of theirs whom implicates them in the murder.

The movie oversees the tragic story of the powerful friendship between four boys on the run across the American States with each other and their ultimate fates.

Plot
Three sixteen year old boys: Harley Sherlins, Collins Bennett and Adam Mattheson along with Harley's younger brother Carlos live in the fictional large Rhubarb Apartment Block in Grundy, Iowa during the 1960's.

The boys are all absent of fathers and are all in the custody of an adoptive Auxillary Woman named Bette Nickleriver.

Their story is told by an adult man whom appears at the beginning at the Rhubarb Apartment Block to greet a new young patron woman named Hannah Gooden.

He tells the woman Hannah the room she is renting out whilest living out contemporarily in Grundy, Iowa once belonged to a woman he knew who was the adoptive mother to four boys during the 1960's.

The tale continues on as the four boys on the day of September 21st, 1964 have their lives changed forever as local patron and cocaine abuser Nestleborough Roberts murders fellow patron Diedrich Sanders and throws the murder weapon gun to friend circle leader Harley Sherlins implicating in the murder of the individual.

The boys leave a note for their surrogate mother Bette Nickleriver proclaiming their innocence and that they are running away and most likely not return.

The four boys evade the pursuing authorities to make their way to Keokuk where the true killer is and prove they are innocent in the killing of a man.

The boys transgress across Texas, The Nevada Desert and finally back to the Iowa crossings of Greene to Guthrie to make to Keokuk to the true killer and have him caught as the authorities close in.

The true killer is exposed in the murder and they are exonerated but not before a shot is fired off at Collins to which Harley steps in the way of.

Harley is rendered into acoma and remains so for the remainding years leading up to 2012.

The story ends and the patron woman Hannah seems utterly intrigued by the story and has a bevy of questions for the man telling her.

The man answers her questions as she asks what became of Bette Nickleriver to which he answers she was reunited with her boys once again but in the means of catching the first flight to Keokuk and heading over to Mercy General Hospital to visit the acomatose Harley and other remaining three boys.

The boys remained visiting her and living under her care until she died at age 65 from a heart attack.

The boys by the age moved out and supported themselves under the educations at three different colleges leading onto three very different careers.

Hannah enquires to what became of Harley and the man tells he is not sure as following him becoming a hotshot architect along with the other two becoming an artist and plane pilot he couldn't find it within himself to return to Mercy General which lead to Carlos and Adam wanting nothing to do with him.

Hannah then becomes shocked and the man then states "Oh, Yes by the way i'm Collins Bennett and the story you've been told over the course of an hour of and half is mine."

The film ends with Hannah following him all the way out of the apartment building to his car and forcing her way into his car.

She tells how she had never knew her father either as he abandoned her with her mother when she was born leaving her to be raised by her until she took her life when she exactly 12 years old.

She tells what she has just heard sounds exactly like the problems which she has never been able to resolve her entire life apart from the having three amazing friends to grow up and back her up through them.

She convinces the adult Collins to be taken to Adam Mattheson and Carlos Sherlins and take them to Mercy General Hospital.

She also asks to accompany him to them and the hospital to see the friend who took a bullet for him herself.

Hannah and Collins first round up Adam whom serves as a pilot stationed centrally in Austin, Texas.

He possesses a wife whom has suffered from a miscarriage and whom suffers from depression.

As they collect Adam upon convincing his wife whilest he is away is left with a book by Hannah upon her hearing of her depression.

They find Carlos in Greene, Iowa where he resides as a father of three and loving husband as well as family man artist.

He has been attached to his brother and mostly visits him every weekend he is givent he chance to.

He at first engages in a fight with Collins regarding the reason he has come