
To convince them, she separately tells each one she loves him and gives him one half of her friendship necklace. Maddy steals three go-carts from her father's race course and recruits her two friends Gus ( Max Thieriot) a young mechanic, and Austin ( Corbin Bleu) a computer geek and aspiring filmmaker, to help her. Maddy comes up with a plan to rob the bank for the money with her knowledge of her mother's system. Harderbach Financial's president Donald Brisbane ( Michael Des Barres) refuses to loan the amount, despite Molly being employed by the bank to design a security system. The family hears of an experimental operation which can save him, but insurance will not pay for the operation and the family does not have $250,000 for the treatment. Latent injuries from Tom's fall have recently paralyzed him from the neck down. Tom and his wife Molly ( Jennifer Beals) are afraid Maddy may suffer a similar accident and have forbidden her from climbing. Her father Tom shares her passion, but fell more than 100 feet during a climb years earlier. Madeline Rose "Maddy" Phillips ( Kristen Stewart) is a 12-year-old girl who loves to climb, often ascending the nearby water tower. The film's working titles were Mission Without Permission (also the film's UK title as well as part of one of the taglines), Catch That Girl, and Catch That Kid! It is a remake of the Danish film Klatretøsen (2002) and tells the story of three kids who rob a bank to obtain the money to pay for the expensive and experimental surgery needed for the father of one of them when the insurance company and the bank president won't help his wife. Catch That Kid is a 2004 family action comedy film directed by Bart Freundlich, written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, and starring Kristen Stewart, Corbin Bleu, Max Thieriot, Jennifer Beals, Sam Robards, John Carroll Lynch, and James Le Gros.
