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Lily Dale (1996)

Movie"The past is only dangerous when you try to forget."
Audience Score
20
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PG 1 hr 38 minJun 9th, 1996TV Movie, DramaThe Orphans' Home Cycle PosterPart of The Orphans' Home Cycle
In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lily Dale, following a long estrangement. He has not seen either since he was 12 because his wicked stepfather, Pete Davenport (whom his mother married after his father drank himself to death) believes a boy ought to be self-reliant.
StarringMary Stuart MastersonSam ShepardStockard Channing
DirectorPeter Masterson

Movie Details

On DVD & Blu-ray:December 12th, 2000 - Buy DVD
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Irwin Meyer, John Thomas Lenox, Linda Curran Wexelblatt
Production Companies:Hallmark Entertainment, Showtime Networks
Movie Tags:
based on true storysmall towntexas1910ssemi-biographicalstepfatheryoung manreturn homedead fatherestrangement

The Orphans' Home Cycle

CORRECT VIEWING ORDER: (1) Convicts (2) Lily Dale (3) Courtship (4) On Valentine's Day (5) 1918 // The Orphans' Home Cycle is a 3-part drama written by Horton Foote. Each of the three parts in the trilogy comprises three one-act plays: The Story of a Childhood (Part 1), The Story of a Marriage (Part 2), and The Story of a Family (Part 3). The focus is on Horace Robedaux (inspired by Foote's father) and Elizabeth Vaughn (inspired by Foote's mother) at the turn of the 20th Century to the beginning of the Depression, following Horace through three decades, as "seen through three generations of three families." Some of these plays were made into movies, released individually and not in order.