[S]ome of the characters we see among the blitzing media—a Houston TV reporter, an Inside Edition researcher and this film's producer and writer, James Manos Jr. and Jane Anderson—play themselves, each trying to weasel out the real inside story.

The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.

I mean ... I just need to disappear for a while ... Yunno, to take care of me.

In the twenty minutes that he had been intently watching the stranger, Gordon would have sworn that the other's face had not moved by so much as the twitch of an eye-lash.