Stealing Home

About Stealing Home

Billy Wyatt, a former high school and minor-league baseball player, receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler, has died. Wyatt returns home to deal with this tragedy, reminiscing over his childhood growing up with his father, Katie, and best friend Alan Appleby.

Stealing Home is a 1988 romance film directed by Steven Kampmann and William Porter. Its themes are death of father, friendship, love, and suicide.

Mark Harmon takes the lead as Billy Wyatt, William McNamara as Teenage Billy Wyatt, Jodie Foster as Katie Chandler, and Helen Hunt as Hope Wyatt. Released in August 1988, it runs 98 minutes.

The screenplay is by Steven Kampmann and William Porter. American members can watch it on Howdy Amazon Channel.

Cars, Ted, and Friends with Benefits make useful companions to Stealing Home. TMDB voters put it at 6.3 out of 10 across 61 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.