In the Movie In the Movie

Ren is from Chicago. He is from Boston.

Ren moves to Bomont with his Mother. They live with his Aunt and Uncle. Ren's mother has died of Leukemia in Boston and his Aunt and Uncle agree to take him in.

Ariel asks her father if she can go for a soda with her friends after church. Instead she drives with them and her boyfriend pulls up next to them in his truck. She climbs out the window of the moving car and grabs on to the truck. She is standing between the two cars as they drive down the highway. A transport truck comes and almost kills her. He asks her father if she can go to Rusty's house for an all night study session. Instead they go to the racetrack to watch Chuck win the race and she grabs the checkered flag and jumps into his car and hangs out the side as he races around the track.

After church someone approaches the preacher and tells him that they want to have the kids read Kurt Vonnegut's book, Slaughter House Five. Ren says it is a classic, but the people all look at him funny, and say that in other towns it might be a classic, but not there. There is no mention of any books.