Stealing Home

"Stealing hearts, stealing laughs, stealing memories"

1988 1h 38m EN

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6.3

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★6.3TMDB · 61

DramaRomance

Synopsis

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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.

“Stealing hearts, stealing laughs, stealing memories”

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Cast

Mark Harmon
Billy Wyatt
William McNamara
Teenage Billy Wyatt
Jodie Foster
Katie Chandler
Helen Hunt
Hope Wyatt
Jonathan Silverman
Teenage Alan Appleby
Harold Ramis
Alan Appleby
John Shea
Sam Wyatt
Blair Brown
Ginny Wyatt

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Steven Kampmann
Writers: Steven Kampmann, William Porter
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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38 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Steven Kampmann, shot by Bobby Byrne. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by David Foster. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Antony Gibbs shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 8

CAST

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Mark Harmon and William McNamara and Jodie Foster carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Stealing hearts, stealing laughs, stealing memories".

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0096171 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 61 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Steven Kampmann directs. Bobby Byrne behind the camera. David Foster scores. Antony Gibbs cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

138 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Directed by Steven Kampmann, shot by Bobby Byrne. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by David Foster. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Antony Gibbs shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Mark Harmon and William McNamara and Jodie Foster carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Stealing hearts, stealing laughs, stealing memories".
7IMDB entry: tt0096171 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 61 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Bobby Byrne
Original score: David Foster
Editing: Antony Gibbs
Production design: Vaughan Edwards
Costume design: Robert De Mora
Makeup / hair: Sharon Ilson
Runtime: 98 min · 1h 38m
Status: Released
Box office: $7,467,504
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Stealing Home (1988)

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What people are saying

Wuchak2026-06-04
★ 7/10
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 another. If you like any of those flicks, this is pretty much on par in its unique way. There are several sequences that take place on the rural Jersey shore, and you can’t beat the locations. Anyone interested in a drama that occurs by the ocean beach should appreciate this. It runs 1h 38m and was shot in late summer 1987 in SoCal (San Bernardino), the Philadelphia area, and New Jersey (Island Beach State Park, Lanoka Harbor; Camden; Trenton; and Margate). GRADE: B+

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