What I Watched -- The Space Between

The Space Between is the story of a wise-beyond-his years but irritating Muslim boy and an angry, disillusioned flight attendant who drinks too much.

Melissa Leo plays Montine.  She's put in charge of the Omar, an unaccompanied minor travelling on a flight from New York to LA on the morning of 9/11.  When they land in California and discover all that's happened in the several hours since they left New York, they are left on their own.  The entire airline industry is in crisis mode and in no position to supervise the boy.

Montine isn't really in any position to supervise him either, but she has no choice when she discovers that Omar's dad worked in one of the towers.  She takes it upon herself to return him to New York, and what follows is a road trip movie with unconventional characters but very conventional sentiments.

Bottom line: cute story, but contains no surprises.