Far From Home
When you have the whole family together it can be difficult to find a movie that everyone can agree upon. My mother, willing to put up with recommendations, doesn’t want to waste the entire evening with decision making. She had made her choice, and who are we to disagree? She had recorded Far From Home via PVR and as the show began, it was evident that she wasn’t going to put a stop to this film even when my sister disagreed. “What is this? Are you serious?” My sister was a bit dumbfounded that our mother had even found such a title and was fully willing to subject us all to it. She ended up sucked into her tablet while my father had already fallen asleep during the opening credits (in the movie’s defense, he does this all the time). Being a bit credulous, but also intrigued by a wide array of films, I found myself fully engrossed in this made-for-TV movie, a genre which I have not dabbled in. The story follows a writer, venturing back to his home…