Back Home (1989 film)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An editor has performed a search and found that sufficient sources exist to establish the subject's notability. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Back Home" 1989 film – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Back Home
Genre	Drama
Based on	Back Home by Michelle Magorian
Written by	David Wood
Directed by	Piers Haggard
Starring	Hayley Mills Hayley Carr Brenda Bruce Jean Anderson
Music by	Ilona Sekacz
Country of origin	United Kingdom United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	David R. Ginsburg Graham Benson
Producer	J. Nigel Pickard
Cinematography	Witold Stock
Editor	Peter Coulson
Running time	105 minutes
Production company	TVS Television
Original release
Network	ITV, Disney Channel
Release	July 23, 1989 (1989-07-23)

Back Home is a 1989 British-American made-for-television drama film based on Michelle Magorian's novel of the same name. Directed by Piers Haggard, the film starred Hayley Mills, Hayley Carr, Brenda Bruce and Jean Anderson and was broadcast on ITV on 23 July 1989.^[1] It was first shown in the United States on the Disney Channel on June 7, 1990.^[2]

Plot

Virginia 'Rusty' Dickinson (Hayley Carr) left England during World War II, and comes back home in 1945. During the war she lived in a foster family and in this way absorbed American culture.

She discovers that her family's situation is very different than it was before the war. She meets her mother, Peggy Dickinson (Hayley Mills), and her new five-year-old brother, Charlie. As Rusty returns, her father, Roger Dickinson (Rupert Frazer), is still stationed as a soldier in Burma. When Japan surrenders he comes back home. His old-fashioned behavior and nature make him unhappy with his modern self-sufficient wife, his Americanised daughter and especially Charlie's dislike of his "new" father.

Rusty is sent to boarding school. As she is used to an American school, she finds the teachers and the other pupils very strict. The school's atmosphere makes her suffer and the other pupils mock her for being an American.

Cast

Hayley Mills as Mrs. Peggy Dickinson
Hayley Carr as Virginia "Rusty" Dickinson
Adam Stevenson as Charles "Charlie" Dickinson
Brenda Bruce as The Honourable Lady Beatrice "Beattie" Langley
Jean Anderson as Grandmother Dickinson
Rupert Frazer as Mr. Roger Dickinson
Mary Ellen Ray as Aunt Hannah
Tracy Johns as School Child

References

^ The Times page 15, 22 July 1989
^ "Hayley Mills: 'Back Home' With Disney latimes.com". Los Angeles Times. 3 June 1990. Retrieved 26 May 2017.

External links

Back Home at IMDb
‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› Back Home at AllMovie

This article related to a made-for-TV drama film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Categories:

Hidden categories: