Overcoming Obstacles In Safe Harbor

The movie Safe Harbor shows us how not to judge someone based on their past, how to overcome obstacles and how family doesn’t have to be blood. The movie starts out with the happily married couple Doug and Robbie Smith, who have just retired and are about to begin their journey sailing the globe on their sailboat. Two weeks before the Smith’s are about to embark, a good friend and Judge asks them if they have room to take care of two teenage boys, since juvenile hall is full and he does not want to send them to the county jail. The Judge informs the couple it will only be for a few days, a week max. The boys help the Smith’s get their boat ready; however, one of the boys (Luke) does not want to buy into hard labor. Since the Smith’s are staying at a marina, the people at the marina not happy
This boy is Larry, who we know very little about. One night Robbie was going to a party, as she was leaving, she stopped to check on Larry who wasn’t feeling well. We saw how Larry missed his mother, and Robbie was becoming the mother figure in his life he was missing. As the weeks went on they become more and more like a family. One night everyone goes out to dinner, expect for Larry, as they are walking home from dinner they see fire trucks heading towards the marina. The boys start running towards the boats, and see it is the Smith’s sailboat on fire. Doug gives them directions to move the other boats away from the fire, as he hoses them down. The next day Doug and Robbie sit the boys down and ask them for the closes why were wearing, as the police suspected arson. The only boy who didn’t give up his clothes was Larry. When Doug goes to see where Larry is, he finds Larry hanging himself. We later discover Larry has a history of arson and started the fire because he didn’t want the Smith’s to leave on their trip. After the fire the big shot at the marina begins to view the differently, as they helped save five