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Home Is Where Your Heart Is
5.2 / 10• 2017• 1h 50m•NR• Dutch
RomanceDrama
Storyline
Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...
Cast & Crew
Edwin Jonker
Virgil
Lead
Leo Alkemade
Axel
Fockeline Ouwerkerk
Victoria
Sanne Vogel
Mirna
Sanne Langelaar
Shirley
Sergio Romero IJssel
Michael
Pip Pellens
Wonnie
Juvat Westendorp
Mariano
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Marc Waltman's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Home Is Where Your Heart Is is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
