Back Home (1989) 480p Hayley Mills

Family | Drama | UK | 103min Cast: Cast: Hayley Mills, Hayley Carr, Adam Stevenson, Brenda Bruce, Jean Anderson, Rupert Frazer, Josh Drobnyk 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. Based on Michelle Magorian's novel of the same name. Re-made in 2001 with Sarah Lancashire, Jessica Fox and Stephanie Cole in the lead roles.