A Long Way Home

December. 06,1981      
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A married teenager sets out to find his long-lost brother and sister years after all three had been placed with different families following their abandonment by their migrant worker parents. Luckily, he finds a compassionate social worker who, at first reluctantly, decides to help him cut through the bureaucratic red tape.

Timothy Hutton as  Donald Branch Booth
Brenda Vaccaro as  Lillian Jacobs
Rosanna Arquette as  Rose Cavanaugh
Paul Regina as  David Branch Czaky
George Dzundza as  Floyd Booth
Bonnie Bartlett as  JoAnn Booth
Wil Wheaton as  Donald Branch, age 8
Floyd Levine as  Judge Sosna

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