Sons for the Return Home
MovieTitle | Sons for the Return Home |
User score | 3 |
Release date | Oct 1, 1979 |
Genre | Drama, Romance |
Director | Paul Maunder |
Production country | New Zealand |
Production companies | Pacific Films (NZ) |
Budget | $400,000 |
Run time | 117 min. |
A Samoan male, Sione, and a Palagi New Zealand female,Sarah, meet while studying at Wellington's 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.