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Sons for the Return Home

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Sons for the Return Home

2.3

1h 57m

1979

Synopsis

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.

Director

Paul Maunder

DramaRomance

racism

Cast & Crew

Uelese Petaia

as Sione

Fiona Lindsay

as Sarah

Moria Walker

as Sione's mother

Amalamo Tanielu

as Malie

Anne Flannery

as Sarah's mother

Alan Jervis

as Sarah's father

Lani Tupu

as Sione's father

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