We own the DVD and in the "making of" section it's mentioned that Sumpter grew almost a foot from when the film started shooting. The bedroom window had to be rebuilt when they did reshoots because he had gotten too tall to fly through the original one.

This movie is one of our family's favorites. Having completey missed its existance when it was originally released, we only discovered it as a rental at our local library. Our library's DVD section is always picked over — for kids you're more apt to find 3rd rate Disney fare or decade-old PBS shows, so imagine my…

I love this movie so much. I actually saw it for the first time in Florence. I spent a semester abroad in the late 80s, and iirc an English film society would play it on Wednesday afternoons for English-speaking tourists and film buffs.

I'm in the same boat! I thought I could at least finish season 1 but it's not going to happen.