Morgan Stewart's Coming Home is a 1987 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Paul Aaron/Terry Winsor and starring Jon Cryer

Jon Cryer

Jonathan Niven "Jon" Cryer is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer. He is the son of actress–singer Gretchen Cryer. He made his motion picture debut in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair, but gained greater fame as "Duckie" in the 1986 John Hughes-scripted film Pretty in Pink...

, Viveka Davis

Viveka Davis

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, Paul Gleason

Paul Gleason

Paul Xavier Gleason was an American film and television actor, known for his roles on TV series such as All My Children and films such as The Breakfast Club, Trading Places and Die Hard.-Early life:...

, Nicholas Pryor

Nicholas Pryor

Nicholas Pryor is an American film and television actor.Pryor was born Nicholas David Probst in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Dorothy and J. Stanley Probst, a pharmaceutical manufacturer....

 and Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE was an English actress.A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962...

. The screenplay was written by Ken Hixon

Ken Hixon

Ken Hixon is a screenwriter whose films include City by the Sea , Inventing the Abbotts , Incident at Deception Ridge , Morgan Stewart's Coming Home , and Grandview, U.S.A....

 and David N. Titcher. The film was also released as Home Front and Homefront Riviera in some countries.

Plot

The film stars Cryer as the son of a senator who has spent most of his life away at boarding school. An eccentric boy who is a fan of horror films, his personality does not fit in with the carefully calculated conservative image his mother (Redgrave) has designed for their family. He is brought home to help with his father's campaign, and unwittingly discovers that others are setting the family up for the fall. With the help of a zany new girlfriend (Davis) he manages to save the day, and loosen up his family in the process.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack included the opening track 'Painted Moon' by The Silencers

The Silencers (band)

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 and music by Peter Bernstein, Timothy Duckworth, Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann

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, Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak

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, John Manikoff, and The Surfaris

The Surfaris

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Production Company: Kings Road Entertainment

Film locations

• 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
• Lincoln Memorial—east side
• Riggs Bank—Lafayette Park
• Rock Creek Parkway
• Washington Monument
• White House—North Side
• Charlottesville, VA—Downtown Mall & Fashion Square Mall

Trivia

• In the French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
  version, the film title has been translated into one of the longest film titles ever: Qu'il est dur d'être farceur, d'aimer la musique pop et les films d'horreur quand on a un père qui se présente aux élections, which means "How tough it is to be a prankster, to like pop music and horror films when you have a father who is presenting himself in the elections".
• This film was filmed prior to Jon Cryer's starring role in Pretty in Pink, but was only released after that film became successful.

External links

• New York Times Review