The Home Song Stories

2007
1h 43m

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A man remembers his childhood and his mother, a Chinese night club singer who struggled to survive in Australia with her two children.A man remembers his childhood and his mother, a Chinese night club singer who struggled to survive in Australia with her two children.A man remembers his childhood and his mother, a Chinese night club singer who struggled to survive in Australia with her two children.

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7.2/10

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- 20 wins & 31 nominations

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Trivia
Australia's official submission in the Foreign Language Film category for the 80th Academy Awards (2008).

Connections
Featured in 24 City (2008)

Soundtracks
Bu Hai Qing
Written by Ching Tao
Performed by Ying Xu

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8/10

Tony Ayres Has Done A Brilliant Job.

I went to the Australian premiere of "The Home Song Stories" last night, and I'm damn glad I did.

It's a great film.

Tony Ayres has done a magic job of bringing his life story to the big screen, and he's picked a great cast to do it with.

Newcomers John Lok and Irene Chen are fantastic as the young Tony and his older sister, Mei.

Joan Chen's finally found a great role, after a string of awful ones.

She shines as Tony's mother, a former Hong Kong nightclub singer who moves to Australia in 1971 with her two children, after marrying an Australian sailor... who she promptly shoots through on.

I don't really want to tell you too much about the movie, because I'd rather you went and saw it yourself.

All I can say is that it's a great study of immigrant life in the 70's, and a snapshot of Australia at the time.

I'm not sure how wide a release "The Home Song Stories" will get, but if it turns up in your local cinema, go see it.

I haven't enjoyed a film this much in a long time.

To hear an interview with Tony, go to

http://rastous.podomatic.com/entry/2007-02-25T18_39_35-08_00