But it has left them a boy perpetually trapped in the throes of early adolescent rebellion.
And there was a little boy trapped at the bottom of the well.
The title character is a kind of black superman who comes to the aid of a young boy trapped in a crime-ridden inner-city neighborhood.
"I'm actually a Jewish boy trapped in a Santeria body," he said.
The reanimated devil takes control of the boy's body, leaving the boy trapped in the devil's decaying body.
He's like a lost little boy trapped in his childhood.
Television cameras zoomed in on two firefighters trying to rescue a 7-year-old boy trapped in the back seat of his parents' car.
But another claimed that he had seen a boy trapped in a running laundry dryer at the school, and suspected the boy was killed.
Remember the boy trapped in the grown-up's body in "Big"?
They made a boy trapped in what was then a provincial Southern town feel nearer to the distant theater capital of his hyperventilated, insomniacal imaginings.