Home at Last

Home at Last

What he needed most was to be wanted.

G 1988 · 58 min · ★ 6.0 · Family, Drama, TV Movie

Billy, a streetwise kid from New York City, is sent to Nebraska and is taken in by a Swedish farm family, the Andersons. Initially fearful and resentful, Billy doesn’t fit in, and he clashes with his new family and adoptive father (Frank Converse). Not until a terrible crisis occurs does Billy realize that, for the first time in his life, he truly belongs and is Home At Last.

Directed by David DeVries · Written by David DeVries

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