Taglines: They had nothing… and tried to find their dream.
A Home of Our Own movie storyline. Frances Lacey, a widow, works at a factory that produces potato chips. She is fired when one of the men gropes her, and she hits him in return. The same day, her son is brought home by the police, for stealing change from payphones, but they don’t press charges. Shortly after this, Frances decides that Los Angeles is not the place to raise a family.
She packs the kids up, sells everything they can’t carry, and starts driving. She figures she’ll know where she’s going when she sees it. Their meager resources get them as far as Hankston, Idaho, where Frances spots the unfinished frame of a wood house a few miles outside town, across the road from Moon’s Nursery. Finding that the proprietor of the nursery, Mr. Munimura, is the owner of the property, though virtually penniless, Frances proposes to buy it from him in exchange for work by her and her children, whom she collectively calls the “Lacey Tribe”.
With winter approaching, the Laceys work hard to make the house habitable. Frances finds a job as a waitress in the coffee shop at a bowling alley in Hankston and puts every dollar she can spare into improvement of the house. Murray inadvertently burns the house down in the dead of winter, and the family loses everything they own.
A Home of Our Own is a 1993 drama film directed by Tony Bill, starring Kathy Bates, Edward Furlong, Clarissa Lassig, Sarah Schaub, Miles Feulner, Amy Sakasitz, Soon-Tek Oh, Tony Campisi, David Jensen and Michael Flynn. It is the story of a mother and her six children trying to establish a home in the small town of Hankston, Idaho in 1962.
A Home of Our Own (1993)
Directed by: Tony Bill
Starring: Kathy Bates, Edward Furlong, Clarissa Lassig, Sarah Schaub, Miles Feulner, Amy Sakasitz, Soon-Tek Oh, Tony Campisi, David Jensen, Michael Flynn
Screenplay by: Patrick Sheane Duncan
Production Design by: James L. Schoppe
Cinematography by: Jean Lépine
Film Editing by: Axel Hubert
Costume Design by: Lynette Bernay
Set Decoration by: Steven A. Lee
Art Direction by: Marcia Calosio
Music by: Michael Convertino
MPAA Rating: PG for some mild language and violence in a family drama.
Distributed by: Gramercy Pictures
Release Date: November 5, 1993
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