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Stealing Home

Stealing Home

6,3 /10 (60 Votes)
1988 EN 98 min

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.

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Release date

26/08/1988

Votes

60

Popularity

1.1

Stealing hearts, stealing laughs, stealing memories

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

98 min

Revenue

$7,467,504

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Wuchak

Wuchak

2026-06-04

⭐ 7

**_A middle-aged Minor League player reflects on his coming-of-age years_** Mark Harmon stars as the protagonist, Billy, who looks back to 1960 when he was 10 years-old in the Philadelphia area and his babysitter, Katie, who was 5½ years older than him, played by Jodie Foster. He also reminisces on the era of 1966-1968 when he came-of-age and the turning-point events thereof. William McNamara plays Billy at this stage in life. Comparable movies include “The Summer of ’42” and “Last Summer” (1969), as well as “The Outsiders” and bits of “Desert Bloom.” The future “Summer Catch” is anoth…

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