A Home of Our Own (1993) on Netflix
Fired from her job, widow Frances Lacey drives her six children out of Los Angeles. In Idaho she offers the owner of an unfinished house work in trade for it.
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Plot summary
Frances Lacey is a widow raising six children in Los Angeles in 1962. She is fired from a potato chip plant after a supervisor gropes her, and that same day the police return her eldest son Shayne home for taking coins out of payphones. Convinced the city is no place for her family, Frances sells whatever they cannot take with them and drives the children out of state. Once their cash runs out, she gives up her wedding ring to pay for car repairs. The family gets as far as Hankston, Idaho, where Frances notices a half-built wooden frame across the road from Moon's Nursery. The nursery's owner, Mr. Munimura, holds the deed to the land. With no money, she offers to buy the place by putting herself and her children, the Lacey Tribe, to work for him.
Cast
- Melvin Wardas Father Tomlin
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Home of Our Own (1993)
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- Screenwriter Patrick Sheane Duncan based the story on his own childhood. After his father was killed in a barroom brawl, his mother relocated all twelve of her children from Los Angeles to Michigan, where she found work as a fruit picker to sustain the family.
