The setting of this movie is present day, and the story evolves around two brothers who now live in New Mexico and are formerly from Tennessee.

Early on, we learn that the younger brother has leukemia, and needs a bone marrow transplant if he is going to overcome this illness. The likely candidate for a match, his older brother Carter, doesn't work with the tests and the next option would be the father from Tennessee who they have long ago disassociated themselves from due to his harshness and some unnamed events that might have happened years ago.

While, the younger brother, Ellis,, who is played by Ethan Peck who is the grandson of Gregory Peck, is ill, for most of the film he looks and seems healthy but an illness such as this can be someone dormant as far as clear symptoms

As the brothers begin to journey back to Tennessee in search of their father who is the last available hope for a matching donor, they stop in a luncheonette in New Mexico and Ellis strikes up a conversation with Krystal, a waitress played by Mariah Carey.

While watching this film, you know this is Mariah Carey the international pop star so it is interesting that she is playing more of less just a regular person.

What is positive about this film, is that from this point on, her character is most prominent and stays on for the whole movie so you can sit back and enjoy seeing Mariah Carey for the whole ride of this movie.

What is striking right away, is the outstanding speaking voiees of the principle actors and Ellis has a great speaking voice to match with Krystal's.

Carter seems embittered and flashback scenes point to a difficult relationship with his father. Carter had been the star quarterback in High school, and in love with a young lady and the future seemed golden bright in those days in the spotlight as he had big time potential.

The director said in the Q and A afterwards that the time frame for the movie was present day and the year when Carter was in high school and the star was 1993. I don't remember this information being in the movie itself as to the exact time frames and years.

Carter's great potential seems long lost. We don't know what exactly intervened towards him not finding that path, but he seems to have somewhat turned on himself as well do to what was lost.

Krystal sees in the words of the brothers, encouragement towards her dormant dreams and talents of being a great singer and widely known. As their car breaks down, she brings them to her home for the night and in this scene we find out her husband, a formerly nice guy who is a big time police officer, entertaining questionable friends and he has found and activated a unruly side towards Crystal that has crossed boundaries and is now out of control.

Thinking on her feet, she plots the escape and starts a road trip back to Tennessee with these brothers she has just met.

He follows after her and a cross country chase ensues.

As you watch this film, it is pretty easy to keep thinking this is Mariah Carey and she comes across as someone you could hang out with, someone who is down to earth, reasonable, quick on her feet and understanding.

Within the movie, Mariah Carey does a full length version of the song, I can dream, and the soundtrack obviously is very good.

The scenery brought about in this film is quite good as a representation of middle America.

Also, it hits home possible for the athlete whose glory days are over, yet faint sounds from those days seem to echo forward into an unresolved mystery and what is left to do and think about from this point. Also issues from the past seem to drag the character of Carter down in the present and the movie expresses it's opinion on that as well.

What I like about this movie, is that it didn't reach into the excessive to evoke emotion, there weren't long drawn out shouting matches and the characters seemed to have a studied coolness to what was happening.

There is one scene that reminding me of the movie It's a Wonderful life where George sees Mary working at the library as an old maid. In this case, whether it can still be a Wonderful life is unsettled, but the moment of chance indeed may not have passed.

This film may have a wide following for its clear presentation of Mariah Carey and its overall nice feel and poetic qualities.