A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Tag: family
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
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Gray Sunset
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer’s disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties. Japan’s submission to the 58th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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Gilsodom
A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War.
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The Harp in the South
We first meet The Darcys, a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock through whose eyes we hear their story. A story that centres on the bittersweet first and last loves of Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly living among the tenement houses, razor gangs, brothels and sly-grog shops of inner city Sydney.
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The Haunting of Barney Palmer
The Haunting of Barney Palmer is a fantasy film for children about a young boy who is haunted by his great uncle. Young Barney fears that he has inherited the Scholar family curse; a suite of 80s-era effects ramp up the supernatural suspense. The film was a co-production between PBS (United States) and Wellington’s Gibson Group, which resulted in Ned Beatty (Deliverance, Network) being cast. It was written by Margaret Mahy, based on her Carnegie Award-winning novel The Haunting, and an early fruitful collaboration between her and director Yvonne Mackay.
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American Gothic
When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they’re forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they’re grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children – an eccentric family living in the island’s backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one … and turning up dead.
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High Tide
A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her husband’s death.
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Harry and the Hendersons
Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family’s car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the “body” they find it’s a “bigfoot”. They think it’s dead so they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this). As you guessed, it isn’t dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear “Harry” to be, he’s a friendly giant.