Far from Home
Far from Home is a 1989 American thriller film. It stars Matt Frewer, Drew Barrymore, Richard Masur, and Susan Tyrrell. It centers on a divorced father and his teenage daughter who run out of fuel in a small desert town and are forced to stay there in a run down trailer park while they attempt to find fuel for their car where at the same time, a series of killings begin to take place as the daughter becomes the obsession of two troublesome boys.
Plot
Charlie Cox is a divorced magazine writer based in Los Angeles. Charlie and his daughter Joleen are on their way home from a cross country vacation when they run out of gas in the small Nevada town of Banco, on the day before Joleen's 14th birthday, where their car is being taken care of by mechanic Duckett.
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author | Tommy Lee Wallace |
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contentLocation | Nevada |
director | Meiert Avis |
editor | Marc Grossman |
genre | thriller |
keywords | abandoned building build carpool cross country cut divorce gas station kill los angeles railroad track rape rescue satellite dish teenage son their way trailer park troubled teen walk |
musicBy | Jonathan Elias |
producer | Donald P. Borchers |
productionCompany | Lightning Pictures Planet Productions |
publisher | Vestron Pictures |
theme | independent psychological thriller serial killer |