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Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987)

Morgan Stewart's Coming Home poster
Directed by
Terry Winsor, Paul Aaron, Alan Smithee
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy returns to his wealthy family after years at a strict boarding school. He tries to adjust to their rigid expectations and finds an unlikely ally in a rebellious neighbor.

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What happens

Morgan Stewart's Coming Home is a 1987 American comedy film starring Jon Cryer, Viveka Davis, Paul Gleason, Nicholas Pryor and Lynn Redgrave. The screenplay was written by Ken Hixon and David N. Titcher. The film was also released as Home Front and Homefront Riviera in some countries. The film was directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Winsor, but upon release the director was listed as "Alan Smithee", a name often used when directors ask to remove their names from a picture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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