the town's founder outside of the house. Mr. McNab is stunned and tells Big John and his friends to go after them. Jeffrey and Amanda stay behind to watch. Meanwhile, Piper and Russell go upstairs and try to fire bean cans at them from a window ledge. Piper slips from the window and falls. Mars Bar runs back and catches him. Russell runs off, knocking over the barrier of stone he and Piper were standing behind which falls towards the boys. Piper makes a run for it and Big John runs up and rescues Mars Bar by pushing him out of the way. Big John thanks him for saving Piper as well as Mr. McNab who gives him a salute. With everyone now getting along, Jeffrey declares that they blow up the rest of the statue. Mr. McNab does this in honor of Mars Bar saving Piper. Afterward, a spark then magically appears on the line of Hector Street separating the West and East Ends and erases it entirely, officially ending the segregation between them. Everyone comes together and celebrates. Jeffrey attempts to leave town, but Amanda declares he's coming back to her house and staying there for good. The movie circles back to the present with the narrator telling the story to the kids she saw playing jump rope. She's revealed to be an older Amanda who has married Jeffrey and had two kids. One of the kids she tells the story to is their daughter. The final scene shows an older Jeffrey throwing the ball to Jeffrey Jr., and he swings the ball with it smoking in the air, similar to what happened when Big John pitched the ball to Jeffrey several years before. Cast Michael Angarano as Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac Magee" Magee Kyla Pratt as Amanda Beale Orlando Brown as Mars Bar Thompson Rip Torn as George McNab Adam Hendershott as Big John McNab Jada Pinkett Smith as the Narrator and adult Amanda Beale Shan Elliot as Bump Gilliam Melissa Bickerton as Dottie Freeze Brandon de Paul as Russell McNab Isaiah Griffin as Piper McNab Rolonda Watts as Martha Beale Richard Lawson as Mr. Beale References External links 2003 television films 2003 films Films based on American novels Nickelodeon original films Films set in Pennsylvania Films set in the 1980s 2000s English-language films