Walking Across Egypt(Film, 1999)

Walking Across Egypt is a 1999 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and written by Paul Tamasy, based on Clyde Edgerton's novel of the same name. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Mark Hamill, Gail O'Grady, Judge Reinhold, and Pat Corley. The film is set in the Deep South. An old woman feels lonely after her children moved out. She takes an interest in an incarcerated juvenile delinquent, and tries to convert him to Christianity. She feels that religion will provide him with a direction in his life. ()