Closer to Home
At What Price Family?
Closer to Home weaves a universal, haunting tale of two people inexorably drawn together for vastly different reasons. Dalisay struggles to journey from the Philippine countryside to New York City to marry Dean, a disillusioned ex-merchant marine. She's hoping to buy a cure for her dying sister and, ultimately, a future for her debt-ridden family, while he hopes to escape his disintegrating American family through love and a family of his own. A powerful, controversial film that quietly builds to a shattering collision of aspirations and cultures.
- Year: 1995
- Country: Philippines, United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Elibon Film Productions
- Keyword: philippines, mail order bride, family, filipino american, filipino-american marriage, overseas foreign workers, mail order wife, pinay
- Director: Joseph Nobile
- Cast: Woody A. Arizala, John Michael Bolger, Elizabeth Bracco, Ralph Buckley, Danny Campbell, Angie Castrence