# Help me find a movie from childhood

**URL:** <https://filmfind.me/t/help-me-find-a-movie-from-childhood/7509>\
**Category:** Movies\
**Created:** [July 8, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/help-me-find-a-movie-from-childhood/7509 "2024-07-08T22:07:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![meta.phoricallywhore](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@meta.phoricallywhore](https://filmfind.me/u/meta.phoricallywhore)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/help-me-find-a-movie-from-childhood/7509/1 "2024-07-08T22:07:25Z")

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The movie is about this **teenage girl who has a dog(?) plushie** that’s magic and **it talks**. The plush is essentially her only friend, she lives in this house with her parents or grandparents and at some point she writes/carves some message on the windowsill. **There’s a boy that had an unrequited crush on her** and later in the movie he dies and she attends his funeral and feels very bad. I think there’s also a scene where she goes swimming with someone in a lake or a river and they swim too far and her or her friend start drowning? Another scene I think is also from this movie is where **she’s running some school marathon and faints/hurts her leg**. Eventually she grows up to be a woman and says goodbye to her talking dog plushie because she’s ready to enter adulthood and doesn’t need an imaginary friend anymore, but **she passes down the plush to either her daughter or niece** to have an imaginary friend too. Please help I’ve been looking for this movie for years. Most of the **atmosphere of the movie seems somber** , maybe from the way it’s shot or because it’s old. Seems like its from **early 2000s or maybe even the 90s**

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**Author:** ![FishHaveBestFriends](https://filmfind.me/user_avatar/filmfind.me/fishhavebestfriends/32/1482_2.png) [@FishHaveBestFriends](https://filmfind.me/u/FishHaveBestFriends)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/help-me-find-a-movie-from-childhood/7509/2 "2024-07-09T01:23:25Z")

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Is it Dancing on the Moon (1997)?

> **[Dancing on the Moon (1997) ⭐ 6.1 | Drama, Family](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125058/)**
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> 1h 27m

[![](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4e291afd5e2b59d24aabcd980d9701ef451d328d.jpeg "Dancing on the Moon (Tales for All #16 / 1997) Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWR8lNLjZls)