I saw this movie when I was a kid, probably sometime between 2002 and 2008. But I’m almost certain the movie was not new at the time — it felt older, probably made in the 1980s or 1990s, definitely before 2000.

Here’s what I remember:

• A young girl, maybe 7 to 13 years old, goes with her dad to visit a man who lives alone in the woods — a remote, forested area. Not sure if they’re related.
• One morning, the dad is just gone. No real explanation that I remember — he just disappears and doesn’t come back.
• The girl ends up staying with the man, and over time, they develop a positive, almost father-daughter-like bond.
• I somewhat remember one scene : Where the man introduced the girl to his friends, it was next to a river and the friends were together by the back of an old pickup truck. Well, at least I think they were his friends.