Movie

Stealing Home

1988 · 98 min

A gentle, wistful look back at first love and loss, drifting between past and present with a quiet ache.

Tagline: Stealing hearts, stealing laughs, stealing memories
Overview: Billy Wyatt, a former high school and minor-league baseball player, receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler, has died. Wyatt returns home to deal with this tragedy, reminiscing over his childhood growing up with his father, Katie, and best friend Alan Appleby.
How it feels: Melancholic, warm, romantic and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Grief, love, coming-of-age, memory
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
love
coming-of-age
memory
death
Places: small town
home
sea
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild