Homecoming

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• 1996
• 1 hr 45 mins
• Drama, Family
• PG

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Mom gets her broken piggy bank savings, moves 4 kids to the city, from their poor trailer-home. They arrive at their aunt's address, taken off of a Christmas card. They wait in the car, but their mom never returns. A football player from Yale sees the older sister crying, sitting all alone. He offers her food, which turns out to be a real meal for the hungry children. He drives them out to where they sit on the porch, waiting for their aunt. While at their aunt's house, they find the 4 will eventually be split in two groups, so they run, trying hard to push on to "Crazy Grandma's," and with money from washing windows, the older sister earns enough for a cold quart of milk, which the kids thirstily share. After arriving at Grandma's on a bus, with money that was wired to them from the future sale of their mom's abandoned car, they find her to be cantankerous, and set in her ways. Grandma has an older farm, covered in honeysuckle vines. They start to trust her, and then agree to keep busy fixing it up and farming for her, so as to convince her to let them stay one day at a time. They help her to can tomatoes and cucumbers, when a rainstorm threatens to ruin her crops. She cannot bear to let them go back where they would live in two houses, but she doesn't think she can take care of them, either. Her emotions tell her what the ultimate decision has to be. Are they truly 'family?' Maybe. They go to the bus station. Watch to see how it ends. (The mother who abandoned them, loved the children very much. See what happened to her.) Back in the day, the gram ma had told the children's mother to not contact her again when she was pregnant at age 21, at least not until she married someone. It is assumed she never did get married. She got Christmas cards,though.