Fan Casting The Talisman (1989)

Jack Sawyer accompanies his mother Lily Kavanaugh-Sawyer to a dreary and depressing rain-drenched resort in New England. Lily Sawyer is dying of cancer. Jack Sawyer soon encounters the mysterious Speedy Parker a local handyman who seems to know the cure for his mother and for many of the strange woes that are befalling Jack. He reveals to Jack that there is in fact another world alongside our own called the Territories which his own father knew about, and which he must travel through to get to the other side of America if he is to save his mother.