Stealing Home
| Stealing Home | |
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Theatrical poster
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| Directed by |
Steven Kampmann William Porter (as Will Aldis) |
| Produced by | Chana Ben-Dov Hank Moonjean Thom Mount |
| Written by | Steven Kampmann William Porter (as Will Aldis) |
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| Music by | David Foster |
| Cinematography | Bobby Byrne |
| Edited by | Antony Gibbs |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Release date
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August 26, 1988 |
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Running time
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98 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14 million |
| Box office | $7,467,504 |
Stealing Home is a 1988 American romantic drama movie, starring Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster, and Blair Brown, with Jonathan Silverman, Harold Ramis and William McNamara in major roles. The film was directed by Steven Kampmann and William Porter (the latter billed as Will Aldis).
In the 1980s, Billy Wyatt (Harmon) is a thirty-something washed up baseball player who now works as a high school groundskeeper, spending his days tending to the field and drinking. One afternoon he receives a phone call informing him that Katie Chandler, an old acquaintance, has died.
The bulk of the film consists of extended flashbacks to the 1960s explaining Billy and Katie's relationship. Katie was a slightly-older neighborhood girl who befriended Billy's mother, Ginny (Brown), and who became his babysitter. Katie acts as a mentor to the young Billy, and, as he grows up, gives him advice on women and dating. As Billy ages he begins to develop feelings for Katie, though the rebellious and worldly-wise Katie is interested in older men. Nevertheless, the two share a flirtatious relationship, and Katie comes to regard Billy as her closest friend and confidante. One Summer in his late teens, Billy's father dies in a car accident, and Katie, Billy, and Ginny go on vacation to recover from the tragedy. While sharing a beach house, Katie encourages Ginny to have a one night stand. An enraged Billy attacks the man whom she brings home, thinking that having sex with another man so soon is disrespectful to his father's memory. He and Katie argue, but later that night make up and sleep together. The next day, Katie tells Billy that she's leaving the country with a man she's been seeing, intending to live a life of adventure. In voice over narration, Billy recalls that this is the last time he ever saw Katie.
In the present, Billy visits Katie's family. Her father tells Billy that Katie went through a series of failed and abusive relationships and that she had seemed chronically unhappy for some time. Despite apparently rebounding from her most recent breakup, she unexpectedly committed suicide. Katie's father tells Billy that her suicide note requested that Billy be responsible for disposing of her ashes, and entrusts them to Billy.
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