Closer to Home (1995)

Closer to Home (1995) - Drama Movies 125 minutes. Looking for America. 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. philippines, mail order bride, family, filipino american, filipino-american marriage, overseas foreign workers, mail order wife, pinay