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Stealing Home

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Original title

Stealing Home

Year

1988

Running time

98 min.

Country

United States

Director

Steven Kampmann, William Porter

Screenwriter

Steven Kampmann, William Porter

Cast

Music

David Foster

Cinematography

Bobby Byrne

Producer

Warner Bros., Mount Company. Distributor: Warner Bros.

Genre

Romance. Drama | Romantic Drama. Sports. Baseball

Synopsis

Billy Wyatt (Mark Harmon) is a baseball player who has gone through some tough times. While living with a cocktail waitress Billy gets a phone from his mother that Katie Chandler (Jodie Foster) has died. He is informed that Katie left a will and that Billy is entrusted with her remains. In long flashback style we learn that Katie was Billy's babysitter when he was ten. Katie was sixteen then but they had a close bond and when Billy was sixteen they became lovers for one summer. When it flashes back to present time Billy goes back to his home town but he doesn't know what to do with Katie's ashes. Her family wants a traditional memorial and burial but Billy knew that's not what Katie would have wanted.

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Critics' reviews

"'Stealing Home' is a real squirmer, a movie so earnest and sincere and pathetic and dripping with pathos that it cries out to be satirized. (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times

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