Going Home

If someone says they have had the perfect life they are either lying or are a single child being raised by a single parent, and even then maybe they just have not lived long enough. There are three fine perfomances on display by a young Jan-Michael Vincent, Brenda Vaccaro and of course Robert Mitchum.

This is a story only a few families may be able relate to in relation to a murder of one parent by another parent, and in this case it is about Robert Mitchum while in a drunken stupor murdering his own wife as his young son around seven (7) years of age is left parentless after his father is imprisoned. Eventually Mitchu is released from prison and he has a new girlfriend (Vaccaro) to which they are trying to re-build their lives when unexpectedly Mitchum's now teenage son (Jan-Michael Vincent) suddenly appears at their door.

Neither father, son, nor Brenda Vaccaro who is Mitchum's live-in trailer girlfriend know how to adapt to being a family since Mitchum has spent the last decade or so in prison while his young son grew up in foster homes. It is not an easy watch as stuff happens in real life that is unpleasant to have to hear, let alone watch. But families can overcome great difficulties if they can learn to live with their pasts and become better people. This is the story of father Harry K. Graham (Robert Mitchum), estranged son Jimmy Graham (Jan-Michael Vincent) and Harry's live in girlfriend Jenny Benson (Brenda Vaccaro) who have to try and find a way to not only survive but to live as a family.

A 6/10 rating