Hidden in the broom closet, Bella is so bored that she barks for Lucas to come but it also attracts the attention of Olivia and Theo, a friendly veteran who finds a solution to Bella's unauthorized presence in the room. When a visit from the owner of the house is announced, Terri and Lucas take Bella to the VA hospital for the day because if she is discovered it will result in their eviction. Terri refused and Gunter claims that she just went to war with him. As adults, when Bella and Terri come home from a walk, they are approached by a Gunter who wants Lucas stops coming to his property. During her early childhood, Bella used to snuggle up against a blanket infused with Lucas' scent while Lucas was at work and often ask for a little piece of cheese. Initially reluctant but eventually convinced by Olivia, Lucas then adopted Bella.Īlthough Lucas mother, Terri had nothing against it, Bella's presence remained hidden from the owner of the house. Deprived of her family, Bella was greeted by the adult cat and came to see her as a mother, calling her "Mother Cat".Ī few months later, named Lucas and Olivia, two young humans preoccupied with cats living under the ruins passed by and when Bella saw Lucas sympathetically feeding the cats, she couldn't help but run towards him. After her siblings were taken away, Bella was taken to safety by an adult cat while the humans took her mother away. However, she does not hesitate to fight against the coyotes twice.īorn in Denver under a heap of ruin with her siblings, Bella grew up surrounded by cats and her family until the day when abusive animal officer Chuck and land owner Gunther came to clear the area of stray animals. She are usually easily approached by humans, showing no hostility when Axel prevents her from continuing her journey or prevent her from playing with other dogs or when Chuck tries to force her away, despite her contempt for this human. Her determination is above all her greatest quality given that she traveled for two years to find home. She also has a lot of kindness in her heart, as when she took care of Big Kitten who had just lost her mother by keeping her warm at night and feeding her the best she could like Mother Cat did it for her.
She has a fairly easy understanding of some human, easily knowing who is nice and mean or even very sad. She never realizes how people can know her name from her medal or even understand people's attentions. The daughter's feeling are not looked at in depth, but the focus on the parents makes the message come across.Like all dogs, Bella loves playing as she also loves snow and squirrel hunting.
A long way home movie movie#
The movie on a whole is slow and shallow and the 'technique' of filming the mother's therapy sessions as interviews makes it look fake. She comes to understand her circumstances as she cries out to her own mother when she realizes she has "forgotten" her own abuse. Meridith Baxter Birney plays the mother who can't believe she didn't know the man she loved dearly was abusing their daughter. Yet he has to learn to live with himself, as he fights his own demons. Every gesture he makes towards his daughter is misinterpreted. Robert Urich plays him as a wounded man who knows he did a terrible thing, but doesn't know what he can do to make it right again. It's a daring movie especially because the abuser is not hidden away as he is in so many other movies we've seen about the subject.
The story follows the mother's therapy sessions and through this we find out that dad was an abused child and later on in the film that this was also the case with the mother. It takes a look at a family (mom, dad, teenage daughter and younger son) going through a crisis as the daughter accuses her father of sexually abusing her. This movie examines the fact that people who were abused by their parents are much more likely to abuse their own children.
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