Sons for the Return Home (movie)
- User score: 3
- Production country: New Zealand
- Producer: Paul Maunder
- Production companies: Pacific Films (NZ)
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Budget: $400,000
- Release date: 10/1/1979
- Run time: 117 min.
Movie description
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.