Stealing Home (1988)

Directed by

Steven Kampmann, William Porter

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A failed baseball player learns that his childhood sweetheart has died by suicide. He returns to his hometown and remembers their past together while trying to follow her final wish to scatter her ashes.

nostalgicmelancholicslow-burnsentimentalpoignantreflectivegentlebittersweet

What happens

Stealing Home is a 1988 American coming of age romantic drama film written and directed by Steven Kampmann and William Porter (billed as Will Aldis). The film stars Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jonathan Silverman, Harold Ramis, William McNamara, and Jodie Foster. The movie focuses on a failed baseball player, Billy Wyatt, who discovers that his childhood sweetheart, Katie Chandler, has died by suicide. Billy must confront the past via reminiscence and nostalgia, while also dealing with grief, as he embarks on a journey to fulfill one of Katie's last wishes; that he spread her ashes. Stealing Home was released theatrically on August 26, 1988, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Upon release, the film was a critical and commercial failure, although David Foster's musical score garnered universal praise, the same for Jodie Foster's performance. The film has been praised by audiences for its melancholic and nostalgic themes, performances, and musical score. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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