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Sons for the Return Home Film (Excerpts) – 1979 Adaptation Drama

Sons for the Return Home

Film (Excerpts) – 1979 Adaptation Drama

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An excerpt from this feature film.

The credits for this feature film.

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Sons is often funny, often sharp in its insights, welcomely serious in intention and complex in its working out of a tangle of related questions – an important film.
– Tom McWilliams, Listener, 3 November 1979
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