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Sons for the Return Home

1979
Directed byPaul Maunder
1h 57m

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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Uelese PetaiaSioneFiona LindsaySarah
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Moria Walker
Sione's mother
Amalamo TanieluMalie
Anne FlannerySarah's mother
Alan JervisSarah's father
Lani TupuSione's father
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DramaRomance
STATUSReleased
RATING
2.3

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