Far from Home

Far from Home is a 1989 American thriller film. It stars Matt Frewer, Drew Barrymore, Richard Masur, and Susan Tyrrell. It centers on a divorced father and his teenage daughter who run out of fuel in a small desert town and are forced to stay there in a run down trailer park while they attempt to find fuel for their car where at the same time, a series of killings begin to take place as the daughter becomes the obsession of two troublesome boys. The film was directed by Meiert Avis, in his feature film directorial debut. Barrymore's book, Little Girl Lost, which describes her battles with addiction, was written around the same time as this film was made. The film was shot in the Black Rock Desert and in Gerlach, Nevada. Plot Charlie Cox is a divorced magazine writer based in Los Angeles. Charlie and his daughter Joleen are on their way home from a cross country vacation when they run out of gas in the small Nevada town of Banco, on the day before Joleen's 14th birthday, where their car is being taken care of by mechanic Duckett. When they stop in a local supermarket, they find no one in the store except Sheriff Bill Childers. Joleen stumbles upon the body of the store's owner, Ferrell Hovis, in a pool of blood. Charlie and Joleen later discover that the nearby gas station is out of gas, forcing them to check into a trailer park owned by a surly woman named Agnes Reed. They meet Agnes's troubled teenage son Jimmy as well as their neighbors, fellow travelers Louise and Amy.