The Home Song Stories

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The Home Song Stories

Release Date: February 09, 2007

Year	:	2007
Slogan	:	«Every Family Has a Story to Hide»
Genres	:	Drama
Production Companies	:	Spark Script Workshop, Film Victoria, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, SBS Independent, Fortissimo Films, Big & Little Films Pty. Ltd., Porchlight Films, ScreenWest, Lotterywest, Australian Film Board, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Australian Film Finance Corporation
Director	:	Tony Ayres
Producers	:	Wouter Barendrecht, Michael J. Werner, Liz Watts, Daniel Yun, Anousha Zarkesh, Michael McMahon, Liz Koops
Writers	:	Tony Ayres
RunTime	:	103 mins.

Tom, now in his 40s, begins to write the memoirs of his 1960s childhood, as the little boy whose mother Rose was a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer. When Rose meets Aussie sailor Bill, they are quickly married, and she packs up Tom and his older sister May to head for Melbourne. The marriage just as quickly breaks up and Rose moves with the kids to Sydney. After a succession of male friends and little success, in 1971 Rose moves back to Melbourne, in an uncomfortable arrangement living again with Bill – and his mother. With Bill called away to sea, Rose takes up with young Chinese cook Joe, but despair and conflicts over May's relationship with Joe tear the family further apart. Little Tom is deeply hurt, but May's ongoing conflict with her mother takes a respite when Rose tells her daughter about her traumatic teenage years.