Paradise (1991) on Netflix

Plot summary

Willard Young is ten and attends a private school on a scholarship, and he is frightened of almost everything around him. He has not seen his father in a long time and believes the man is away on sea duty. His mother sends him to a small town to stay with her old friend Lily Reed and Lily's husband, Ben. There he meets Billie Pike, who is nine and does not know who her father is, because her mother's relationships do not last. The two children become friends.