Lucky U Ranch

Lucky-U-Ranch is a story about two young people who develop a friendship while embroiled in severe family trauma and dysfunction. Junior is an overweight, bullied kid who dreams of being Joe Friday on Dragnet, while suffering daily at the hands of his cruel classmates. The young Melissa arrives at the trailer park with a different set of woes. Her parents are raging alcoholics and they are basically on the run. Together, the two young people find shelter in each other's company and they teach each other: She teaches him how to hit a baseball, and he teachers her how to play jacks (a wonderful gender reversal for that time period). The young people who play the characters of Junior and Melissa are fantastic and the dialogue and emotion in his story is spot on!