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Breaking Home Ties

  • TV Movie
  • 1987
  • PG
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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Breaking Home Ties (1987)
Drama

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. While his fam... Read allInspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. While his family must deal with a life threatening illness.Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. While his family must deal with a life threatening illness.

  • Director
    • John Wilder
  • Writer
    • John Wilder
  • Stars
    • Jason Robards
    • Eva Marie Saint
    • Doug McKeon
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    95
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    • Director
      • John Wilder
    • Writer
      • John Wilder
    • Stars
      • Jason Robards
      • Eva Marie Saint
      • Doug McKeon
    • 7User reviews
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    Jason Robards
    Jason Robards
    • Lloyd
    Eva Marie Saint
    Eva Marie Saint
    • Emma
    Doug McKeon
    Doug McKeon
    • Lonnie
    Erin Gray
    Erin Gray
    • Carol
    Claire Trevor
    Claire Trevor
    • Grace Porter
    J. Eddie Peck
    J. Eddie Peck
    • Brad
    Kristen Lux
    • Bonnie Jo
    David Denney
    • Roy
    Parley Baer
    Parley Baer
    • Sears
    Norman Bennett
    Norman Bennett
    Tom Campitelli
    Tom Campitelli
    Jerry Haynes
    Jerry Haynes
    • Dr. Hendrickson
    Jill Parker-Jones
    Miles Mutchler
    Abby Newman
    John Cadenhead
    Dale Smith
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      Claire Trevor's final acting role.

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    4/10
    No Basketball For Doug
    Breaking Home Ties was inspired by a famous Norman Rockwell illustration from the Saturday Evening Post during the Fifties. Simpler times when Mr. Rockwell's vision of America was unchallenged.

    Mainly not to add any pressure on him I think though it's never quite explained. Eva Marie Saint chooses to keep the fact that she's dying from leukemia from son Doug McKeon. And to make doubly sure the secret is safe she also doesn't tell her husband Jason Robards, Jr.

    Secrets abound in Breaking Home Ties. School teacher Claire Trevor's been keeping a pip of one for many years. But if we're to believe The Last Picture Show of which this seems to be a PG version of, secrets like that don't keep well in a small Texas town. This incidentally was Claire Trevor's farewell film.

    Rounding out the main players in Breaking Home Ties is Erin Gray, sister of one of Doug McKeon's basketball teammates and a war widow who takes a shine to young McKeon. Doug McKeon is rather short and for the life of me I couldn't believe anyone would give him a basketball scholarship no matter how good he was. They should have had him playing baseball. Or even rodeo, given that this is set in Texas.

    Breaking Home Ties never quite makes the grade, it falls short of good family entertainment. It is nicely photographed on location in Texas, but The Last Picture Show it ain't.
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    • Release date
      • November 26, 1987 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Norman Rockwell: entre padre e hijo
    • Filming locations
      • Dallas, Texas, USA
    • Production company
      • Telecom Entertainment Inc.
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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