The Home Song Stories
2007 · 103 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 945 VOTES · DIR. Tony Ayres
Overview
Tom, now in his 40s, begins to write the memoirs of his 1960s childhood, as the little boy whose mother Rose was a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer. When Rose meets Aussie sailor Bill, they are quickly married, and she packs up Tom and his older sister May to head for Melbourne. The marriage just as quickly breaks up and Rose moves with the kids to Sydney. After a succession of male friends and little success, in 1971 Rose moves back to Melbourne, in an uncomfortable arrangement living again with Bill – and his mother. With Bill called away to sea, Rose takes up with young Chinese cook Joe, but despair and conflicts over May's relationship with Joe tear the family further apart. Little Tom is deeply hurt, but May's ongoing conflict with her mother takes a respite when Rose tells her daughter about her traumatic teenage years.
Dialogue Timeline — 820 lines
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00:00:48 If everyone has one story which defines them
00:04:46 Don't!
00:08:22 Ma!
00:11:27 I've decided to read the whole encyclopedia.
00:15:00 Shao Wah...
00:17:02 Here's our apprentice cook with
00:22:52 It's too risky.
00:25:01 Hello.
00:29:40 how could you?
00:34:22 You like?
00:38:39 She'll lend us money.
00:43:12 Go to bed.
00:49:08 I thought you wanted me to.
00:52:53 Clean the kitchen!
00:56:25 Be better for everyone if I die.
00:58:49 the rest must retreat to the edge of the ice pack
01:04:17 I brought you some stuff.
01:08:22 Ai ya! The crab was bad. Don't go in there.
01:12:18 He was injured...
01:16:03 You lose more money than I do!
01:19:27 I know.
01:23:40 I see her ghost everywhere.
01:28:31 how a mother can do that to her children.
01:33:16 The night my mother died