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Heading Home (1991)

Heading Home poster
Directed by
David Hare
Genre
romance, tv movie
Country
United Kingdom
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman moves to London after World War II and gets involved with two different men. One is a successful novelist and the other is a working class man who wants to be a writer, and she must choose between them.

intimatereflectivemelancholicquietly intenseemotionalunderstatedslow-burnthoughtful

What happens

Heading Home is a British television drama film written and directed by David Hare. It was first broadcast on BBC Two on 13 January 1991 as part of the Screen Two anthology series. The film stars Gary Oldman, Joely Richardson, Stephen Dillane, and Stella Gonet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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