‘All the Way Home’: Heaven, on Earth?

This installment of ‘Movies for Young Adults’ envisages faith as the ideal center of a family.
‘All the Way Home’: Heaven, on Earth?
Mary (Jean Simmons) and Jay Follet (Robert Preston), in "All the Way Home." Paramount Pictures
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Director Alex Segal’s film, “All the Way Home,”  ponders death within a family, and the faith required to fend off the fear and loathing of it.

Pre-teen Rufus (Michael Kearney) grows up loved by his father, Jay Follett (Robert Preston) and mother, Mary (Jean Simmons). They mold in him values they think he’ll need as a young man: restraint, responsibility, respect.
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