''Back Home'' is a 1989 British-American made-for-television

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based on Michelle Magorian's novel of the same name. Directed by Piers Haggard, the film starred

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, Hayley Carr,

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and

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and was broadcast on ITV on 23 July 1989.''The Times'' page 15, 22 July 1989 It was first shown in the United States on the

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on June 7, 1990.

Plot

Virginia 'Rusty' Dickinson (Hayley Carr) left England during World War II, and comes back home in 1945. During the war she lived in a foster family and in this way absorbed American culture. She discovers that her family's situation is very different than it was before the war. She meets her mother, Peggy Dickinson (

), and her new five-year-old brother, Charlie. As Rusty returns, her father, Roger Dickinson (Rupert Frazer), is still stationed as a soldier in Burma. When Japan surrenders he comes back home. His old-fashioned behavior and nature make him unhappy with his modern self-sufficient wife, his Americanised daughter and especially Charlie's dislike of his "new" father. Rusty is sent to boarding school. As she is used to an American school, she finds the teachers and the other pupils very strict. The school's atmosphere makes her suffer and the other pupils mock her for being an American.

Cast

as Mrs. Peggy Dickinson *Hayley Carr as Virginia "Rusty" Dickinson *Adam Stevenson as Charles "Charlie" Dickinson *

as The Honourable Lady Beatrice "Beattie" Langley *

as Grandmother Dickinson *Rupert Frazer as Mr. Roger Dickinson * Mary Ellen Ray as Aunt Hannah * Tracy Johns as School Child

References

External links

* * 1989 television films 1989 films 1989 drama films Disney Channel original films Films directed by Piers Haggard Television shows produced by Television South (TVS) American drama television films 1980s English-language films 1980s American films 1980s British films British drama television films {{tv-drama-film-stub