| Genre: | Drama |
| Based On: | Back Home novel by Michelle Magorian |
| Director: | Piers Haggard |
| Starring: | Hayley Mills Hayley Carr Brenda Bruce Jean Anderson |
| Music: | Ilona Sekacz |
| Country: | United Kingdom United States |
| Language: | English |
| Executive Producer: | David R. Ginsburg Graham Benson |
| Producer: | J. Nigel Pickard |
| Editor: | Peter Coulson |
| Cinematography: | Witold Stock |
| Runtime: | 105 minutes |
| Company: | TVS Television |
| Network: | ITV, Disney Channel |
Back Home is a 1989 British-American made-for-television drama film based on Michelle Magorian's novel of the same name. Directed by Piers Haggard, the film starred Hayley Mills, Hayley Carr, Brenda Bruce and Jean Anderson and was broadcast on ITV on 23 July 1989.[1] It was first shown in the United States on the Disney Channel on June 7, 1990.[2]
Virginia 'Rusty' Dickinson (Hayley Carr) left England during World War II, and comes back home in 1945. During the war she lived in a foster family and in this way absorbed American culture.
She discovers that her family's situation is very different than it was before the war. She meets her mother, Peggy Dickinson (Hayley Mills), and her new five-year-old brother, Charlie. As Rusty returns, her father, Roger Dickinson (Rupert Frazer), is still stationed as a soldier in Burma. When Japan surrenders he comes back home. His old-fashioned behavior and nature make him unhappy with his modern self-sufficient wife, his Americanised daughter and especially Charlie's dislike of his "new" father.
Rusty is sent to boarding school. As she is used to an American school, she finds the teachers and the other pupils very strict. The school's atmosphere makes her suffer and the other pupils mock her for being an American.