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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

I actually had a very similar experience with having a tough time remembering a movie from my childhood.

It was Christian Bale's first ever movie, before Empire of the Sun.

After some googling and memories slowly coming back to me I figured out it is called Mio in the Land of Faraway and is based on a Swedish children's fantasy novel called Mio Min Mio (Mio my Son).

Son my Son?