Sons for the Return Home

Sons for the Return Home (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
117 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
New Zealand ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Paul Maunder

Written By:
Paul Maunder

Actors:
Uelese Petaia ..... Sione
Fiona Lindsay ..... Sarah
Moira Walker ..... Sione's Mother
Lani John Tupu ..... Sione's Father
Anne Flannery ..... Sarah's Mother
Alan Jervis Wilks ..... Sarah's Father
Sean Duffy ..... Sarah's First Love
Tony Groser ..... Headmaster
Desmond Kelly
Richard Newman
Don Selwyn

Synopsis:

Sione, a young Samoan man studying at university in Wellington, meets and falls in love with Sarah, a young Palagi (European) woman also studying there. The film's plot follows the troubled evolution of their relationship. It also traces the previous life history of Sione from his arrival in New Zealand as a small child accompanying his parents who have migrated from Samoa. All these events in New Zealand are remembered in flashback by the adult Sione who has reluctantly returned with his parents to Samoa after breaking up with Sarah. He recalls meeting her, their relationship blossoming, and the rather fraught occasions when they meet each other's parents and experience prejudice and closed-mindedness. The young couple embark on a road trip through the North Island of New Zealand where they encounter Maori culture and also quarrel. Pressures mount on them and they split up before Sione's return to Samoa. He discovers that he feels just as out of place and alienated in the Samoan environment as he had in Wellington and, after having a bitter confrontation with his mother, he flies back to New Zealand from Apia. Sarah is last seen looking wistful while visiting London.

A Samoan male, Sione, and a Palagi New Zealand female,Sarah, meet while studying at Victoria University. A relationship develops quickly, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage. She leaves for Australia for an abortion and he returns to Samoa. An uneven production that has definite merit. Filmed in Wellington, Taupo and Western Samoa

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 07 November, 2013.

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