Three scenes make this movie.

1. Skating and then finding the Goons
2. The mechanical Horse
3. The triumphant exit of the limo

At under 90 minute it felt short. And more to the point empty. Beyond those three scenes there's nothing else to really see. I'm glad I watched it but it's a hard sell to watch again. It's too shallow to have anything to say. Which is a shame because all the pieces are there for a charming movie that's a bit aged up from say Home Alone and not as overfilled with meaning as The Breakfast Club. It could have hit that nice middle with some sort of recurring them or cohesion between the various scenes. There's places to expand like the conversation about being happy and free vs having means and being trapped. Jim Dodge is interesting in part because in spite of Connelly looking amazing he seems to see her at a very attractive girl as maybe a third priority. His story line as a home based lout and a liar was ripe for the expanding on but the movie just kinda doesn't. Connelly's Josie complains that she's offending people but we never see this. She acts out because she feels trapped and while we don't need to see that per se it would have been nice to see something about her personality that was consistent and interesting. By the time someone knocks on the door tension should have been at it's peak up till then and instead I felt more tension when he glimpsed her on the initial skating scene. The movie just goes from place to place sometimes well sometimes not until the inevitable comes with zero foreshadowing or interesting aspects.