Whether you walk out of the theater hating, loving, or sympathizing for the director's mother, Stories succeeds in enabling you to see through the eyes of an angry, confused little boy
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05/27/08
The Home Song Stories (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 3 Fresh: 3 Rotten:0 Average Rating: N/A
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
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The Home Song Stories remains a high quality local production, providing layered, human drama with a personal story.
08/29/07
A finely chiseled drama about an unstable Chinese mother struggling to reconcile her desires with her children's needs in early '70s Australia, The Home Song Stories speaks bittersweet truths about life in the Chinese diaspora.
08/25/07
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My favourite Australian film of the year so far ... a cathartic memoir, a love story and a tribute to his unfathomable butterfly mother.
08/20/07
Based on real events from writer/director Tony Ayres’s childhood, The Home Song Stories – a title that remains inscrutable – is both dispassionate and nonjudgmental of this self-absorbed, manipulative, emotionally immature, alluring woman.
08/23/07
At its core, The Home Song Stories evokes painful memories, but also brings about the notion of forgiveness, remembering and honouring those memories.
09/15/07
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