Burning fate

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Movie
German title Burning fate
Original title No place like home
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK -
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Director Lee Grant
script Ara Watson
Sam Blackwell
production Joseph Feury
Amy Lippman
Christopher Keyser
music Charles Gross
camera Laszlo George
Tony Pierce-Roberts
cut Rick Shaine
occupation

Burning Fate is an American drama from 1989.

After a house fire, a young family with two school children loses their livelihood. The television film describes the odyssey between hope and despair and conveys the dreary everyday life of the family to the viewer, which tries in vain to get out of the maelstrom as welfare recipients and homeless people.

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The family man Mike Cooper can support his family to some extent thanks to his job as a caretaker. Thanks to further training, he hopes to get a better job as an electrician soon. When the family returns that night after visiting the family of Eddie, Mike's brother, the house is burned out. The job as caretaker is lost, the family faces an uncertain future.

It is only thanks to a few savings that Mike and his wife Zan can afford to move into a motel room with their two school-age children, David and Tina. Only after Zan's persuasion does Mike manage to accept shelter and support from his brother Eddie. However, Mike has great difficulty now to be dependent on his brother, the tensions are predetermined, which ends in a hearty argument and causes the family to leave this place.

Without work and money, the parents soon feel compelled to accept help from the state welfare, despite internal resistance, against their pride and their own aversion to "other" welfare recipients. Everyday life in a social shelter turns into a great odyssey between hope and despair for parents and children alike. As "motel rats" at school, the children experience the corresponding prejudices and aversions of the other children, at the same time Mike forbids his son David to play with Tomaso, another youth from the accommodation. For this, Zan finds strong moral support from the black roommate Prue.

Again and again Mike hopes to get a permanent position, in the end he is even without a part-time job. Assuming that it would be easier to find a job in the up-and-coming south of the United States, he decides with a heavy heart to leave the family for the time being, a decision that son David in particular acknowledges with great dislike. David soon runs the risk of being drawn into crime as a drug courier.

In the absence of the husband, Zan is sexually harassed by Frank, a supervisor, and subjected to extortion (threat with the youth welfare office) because of David's behavior (work as a drug courier). After David rushed to his mother's help and injured Frank in the leg with scissors, Zan and David and Tina quickly leave the accommodation.

The mother and her two children now live on the street with only a few belongings. They later break into the house of Eddie's absent family, but are taken out onto the street again by the police. The three then find a place to stay in the basement of an empty, dilapidated house. A little later Mike returns to the family, still without a job.

The film ends abruptly without the film plot being brought to an “end”. At the beginning of the credits, the viewer is given the message that "It is estimated that there are 3 million homeless in the United States and that these families have the highest growth rates ".

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  1. ↑ Filming locations on Internet Movie Database