Stealing Home (1988)
7/10
Back to the sweet past
18 March 2010
On behalf of youth, there have been some of the worst scarecrows of film history, but also, from time to time (¿why is always good once in a while?) Is a story that blanket the soul and brings us back the romance, sometimes we lost forever.

And it's so beautiful dream with open eyes! And so great was that first love that made us believe that in this world was perfect! There is, perhaps, other moments that are remembered with more gratitude, as experienced with tenderness and passion in our adolescence.

"Stealing Home" is one of those movies. The story is about a boy (Billy Wyatt) baseball player, in crisis after the death of his father who one day finds out that Kathy Chandler, his sweet first love, killed himself and hopes that he is the man take charge of her ashes.

Then the memories begin. With each haunting space, the past returns unstoppable, and Billy is remembered as a ten year old boy fascinated by the beautiful Kathy sixteen. Travel by car, the first installment, the horse diver, swimming pool... The enormity of the simple, tenderness and charm of every gesture, every touch, every word. The forever stamp each encounter... and death that is interwoven to tell her it was all an illusion and that nothing is to touch it again.

Kathy was a young girl who wanted to own your life every minute, every second. He wanted to chart a path of freedom in a world where constraints arising everywhere. But you can say I tried to exhaust his strength... to vanish in a haze of memory.

Jodie Foster gives an adult character,charming and credible. In full bloom of adolescence, showing mature, sensitive, beautiful, and lets us feel that great actress who has always been throughout his career.

Beautiful songs and a nice atmosphere reminiscent of famous titles as "Summer of 42" or "The Man in the Moon", make this an enjoyable film worth seeing and remembering.
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