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I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Let me start by saying: yes, it's got its corny parts. Yes, it's cliché as all get out.But it's got some amazing acting, and there are four or five moments throughout that just make you feel like your heart shattered into a million pieces.Nathan is a fourteen year old boy, who sells himself to feed his mother's drug habit -the movie starts on the day of his fourteenth birthday, leading to what is easily one of the most heart wrenching moments I've seen in a movie for a while.After 'working' the night before, Nathan goes to school, then returns home, where a neighbor lady complains to him about the noise from his mother's party the previous night, for which Nathan apologizes, and the lady kindly tells him that it's him she feels sorry for. After he starts to walk away, there's this moment of hesitation, before he turns, and tells the lady that it's his birthday. It's such an innocent moment, seeing this kid desperately wanting somebody to know that he's made it fourteen years; that he's still alive. And honestly, it almost made me cry.And that's what makes this movie memorable; that's what makes it such a gem. Instead of big name actors, massive CGI effects, car chases, and one-liners for cheap laughs... it actually evokes strong emotions in you.

Nathan stays with his mother who is a drug addict and a mother in name only. He's left to fend for himself and to get drugs to support his mother's addiction. He manages this by prostituting himself. At the start of the movie, after making some money the only way he knows how, he brings home some drugs for his mother and she dies from an overdose. He's taken back to a police station and someone from social services is called to take him into care, but he decides to run away. His father is unknown, even to his mother, but he claims he's heading west to find him. I was never very clear about why he was actually motivated to head toward Vancouver. Maybe he just wanted to get as far away as possible from the life he had been living. He finds a way to coerce a man, Boon, who he runs into at a diner to give him a lift. Coincidentally, Boon was also a man that happened to be at the police station at the same time as he was. Probably one of the greatest weaknesses of the storyline was the heavy reliance on coincidences and the equally unlikely way so many things fell into place to carry the plot forward.It's hardly surprising that Boon, who appears to be transporting a supply of illegal drugs to someone in Vancouver and who has a load of personal baggage vis-à-vis his own family and childhood, bonds with Nathan along the way, while ostensibly trying to keep an emotional distance from him. Equally expected, there are some misunderstandings, disagreements and complications to their relationship along the way, but it's also fairly obvious that both Nathan and Boon grow on each other.The ending was something of a surprise, although it too depended in part on some credulity stretching coincidences and a presumed & slightly improbable happily-ever-after denouement.Well worth watching and a feel-good movie if you're not too picky about the overly "convenient" plot development. The choice of "Jet Boy" for a title seems unfortunate since it might conjure up ideas of a animated comic book character.Allowing for some dramatic license, the characters were believable and the acting was good. Branden Nadon and Dylan Walsh were especially good as Nathan and Boon.

I gave this a 9 out of 10, which is extraordinary for what, in many ways, is a pretty bad film. Sometimes a movie can touch you, like this one does, even though you know it has some terribly bad aspects like cardboard-cutout characters and unbelievable plot turns. In a movie that often has the complexity and production values of an ABC Afternoon Special, there is the stirring performance of Branden Nadon as Nathan, a young male prostitute, latching onto a drifter he wants to be his ... father figure? lover? both? There are many unanswered questions here, opportunities missed, time spent on uninteresting plot lines. But instead of walking away in disgust, Nadon's performance and character just leaves you hungry for more, and wishing scenes had been expanded. There's a scene where Nathan tells a gay teen who has just kissed him, "I just want to be a good kid," and it so excruciating and sweet and sad you wish the scene had gone on forever. When Nathan accompanies the drifter to the drifter's home town, none of the people he encounters there know how worldly he is, or how wounded he is, and how he longs to belong to someone. It's a poignant performance you won't easily forget.

It's a good movie. It's about a boy who sells himself for money. And then his mom dies and he has no dad, so he has no where to go. While in a diner he mats Boon. It's sad because in one scene he says "I just want to be a good kid" and you feel sad for him. He dosen't want Boon too leave him all alone.Branden Nadon plays Nathan,the main character. It's also good because it's canadian.