Andrew J. Ferchland

A Cherokee boy is a haemophiliac in a culture obsessed with blood identity. (imdb)

Aptly nicknamed "Jack the Dog" for his womanizing ways, married photographer Jack (Nestor Carbonell) spends much of his time trying to hide his affairs from his wife, Faith (Barbara Williams), who finally gets fed up and walks out on him. Forced to face his faults while raising his young son, Sam (Andrew J. Ferchland), alone, Jack soon learns some important life lessons in this moving indie comedy.

Ethel and Tommy Barrick are away attending a boarding school and they miss their distant father. As summer arrives they are unhappily sent away to live with their father's new fiancee in Ireland. They soon discover that their future stepmother and her creepy butler are planning evil schemes with mysterious evil powers that they possess. With the help of a sympathetic housekeeper the children fight off the evil pair and try to regain a family that they never had.