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There are two Haley Joel Osment movies I can think of that you may be talking about. Bogus where his mother dies in a car wreck and he goes to live with her foster sister, and if there's a chance the mother was just a worthless person who we don't see for most of the film it could be Second Hand Lions.
He might even be talking about Forrest Gump! Forrest, Jr. is played by Haley Joel in his first ever role, and his mother dies. OP could simply be misremembering the custody battle thing.
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it definitely wasn't Forrest Gump, since I've seen that movie more than thirty times...I'm starting to think it wasn't haley joel osment in the movie.
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could it be Pay it Forward?
It couldn't be Pay it Foward. The boy dies at the end. I would have said Secondhand Lions, but the mom doesn't die in that either.
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Since you mentioned Haley Joel Osment, I looked it up and found a list
of Movies, TV Shows and other stuff he acted/voiced characters in.
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Long shot here, but could it have been August Rush? The boy in the film looks a little like Haley Joel Osment, and his mother dies early in the film, leaving him orphaned.
I...don't think August Rush's mother died. He was orphaned because his mother's father didn't want anything getting in the way of her music career, so when he (August Rush) was born, his grandfather put him up for adoption and told his mom that she miscarried or something.
definitely not august rush... this movie came out in the early 90s. An opening scene is at the mother's funeral, where his aunt starts to tell the boy she will be adopting him. Also, the boy was definitely blonde, and I'm now quite sure that it wasn't Haley Joel Osment.
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careful he might hear you. Its on Amazon video for free.
A movie I remember from a while back about a blonde boy (possibly played by Hayley Joel Osment). All I really remember about the plot is the kid's mother dying and there being some sort of custody battle over him.