Sons for the Return Home

Sons for the Return Home

1979•1h 57m•2.3/10

DramaRomance

Ratings

🎬TMDb

2.3/10(3)

A Samoan male, Sione, and a Palagi New Zealand female,Sarah, meet while studying at Wellington's Victoria University. A relationship develops quickly, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage. She leaves for Australia for an abortion and he returns to Samoa.

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Production

Pacific Films

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Uelese Petaia

Sione

Fiona Lindsay

Sarah

Moria Walker

Sione's mother

Amalamo Tanielu

Malie

Anne Flannery

Sarah's mother

Alan Jervis

Sarah's father

Lani Tupu

Sione's father

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