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A Place to Call Home (1987)
Directed by Russ Mayberry
Overview
Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the “destructive influences” of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.
Length 96 minutes
Actors
Linda Lavin | Lane Smith | Lori Loughlin | Robert MacNaughton | Paul Cronin | Maggie Fitzgibbon | Skye Bassett | Patricia Patts | Richard Alzaga | Philip Amelio | Bessie Anne Collins | Kenny Harrison Jr. | Michael Bird | Tamsin West | Fiona Walshe | Mervyn Drake | Nancy Black | Lawrence Mah | Craig Reardon | Bruce Knappett | Jim Ewing