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Home to Stay

1978 · 78 min · ★ 5.3 · Drama, TV Movie

A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to put him in a home for the aged.

Directed by Delbert Mann · Written by Suzanne Clauser

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